I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
More Moliere Quotes
-
-
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE -
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE -
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE -
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE -
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE -
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE -
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE -
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.
MOLIERE -
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE -
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE -
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE -
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE -
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE -
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE -
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE -
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE -
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE -
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE -
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE -
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE -
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE -
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE -
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE -
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE