My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then… — Molière Copy Share Image
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we’re seized with; That he must hold in check the… — Molière Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere Copy Share
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. — Moliere Copy Share
