The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIEREWe live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
More Moliere Quotes
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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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.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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