Moliere Quotes

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Too great haste leads us to error.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

To live without loving is not really to live.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

There is no protection against slander.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

How easy love makes fools of us.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.