black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Some 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.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
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

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes