Quotes By Moliere

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

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

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.

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.

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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

I have the knack of easing scruples.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

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

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

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

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.