black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Moliere

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes