Quotes By Moliere

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

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.

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

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

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

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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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

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

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

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.

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.

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

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

Books and marriage go ill together.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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.

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

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

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 trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.