Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
More Moliere Quotes
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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