A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIEREThe proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
More Moliere Quotes
-
-
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE -
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE -
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE -
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE -
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE -
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE -
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE -
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE -
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE -
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE -
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE -
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE -
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE -
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE -
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE -
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE -
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE -
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE -
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE -
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE -
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE -
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE -
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE -
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE -
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE -
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE