Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIEREDon’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
More Moliere Quotes
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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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.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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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.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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