Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Moliere - Page 2
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French playwright Moliere.
Last updated on November 29, 2024.
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
Too great haste leads us to error.
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
We are easily duped by those we love.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
How easy love makes fools of us.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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.
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