black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

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

Affair Charm Gold Misery
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Project Road
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes