Quotes By Moliere

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Books and marriage go ill together.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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.

Reason is not what decides love.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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.

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.

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

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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