Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIEREThose whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
More Moliere Quotes
-
-
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE -
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE -
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE -
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE -
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE -
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
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 -
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE -
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE -
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE -
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE -
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE -
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE -
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE -
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE -
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE