Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.