Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREIn 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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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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The smallest errors are always the best.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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