Moliere Quotes

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.