Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIEREEvery good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
More Moliere Quotes
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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