Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREFrankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
More Moliere Quotes
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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