Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Moliere
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French playwright Moliere.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Books and marriage go ill together.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Reason is not what decides love.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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