black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

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

Offend Public Secret Sin
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes