It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.