Moliere

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

— Moliere

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”

— Molière

The essence of fencing is to give, but by no means to receive.

— Moliere

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

— Moliere

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

— Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

— Moliere

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

— Moliere

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

— Moliere

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is…

— Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be…

— Moliere

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without…

— Moliere

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed…

— Moliere

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so…

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that…

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

— Moliere

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

— Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

— Moliere

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

— Moliere

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

— Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

— Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

— Moliere

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

— Moliere

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

— Moliere

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

— Moliere

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

— Molière

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

— Moliere

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

— Molière

If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

— Moliere

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

— Moliere

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

— Moliere