Moliere Quotes

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

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

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

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.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Assassination's the fastest way.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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

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.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

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.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

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

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Too great haste leads us to error.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.