There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREHow easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIEREI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIEREA laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIEREThe true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREIf you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIEREAh! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREReason is not what decides love.
MOLIERESome 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.
MOLIEREThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREAh, there are no longer any children!
MOLIEREWhen we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIEREWe are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERECover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIEREIt may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE