Quotes By Moliere

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

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

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Books and marriage go ill together.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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

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

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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

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.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Reason is not what decides love.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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

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