black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Moliere

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes