Moliere Quotes

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

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

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Music and dance are all you need.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

The smallest errors are always the best.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

The envious will die, but envy never.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

A woman always has her revenge ready.