black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

Moliere

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
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.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes