Moliere Quotes

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

To live without loving is not really to live.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

The envious will die, but envy never.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

But it is not reason that governs love.

Music and dance are all you need.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

Long is the road from conception to completion.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

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.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.