Intelligence Quotes by Pierre Beaumarchais

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or…

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung

— Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

— Pierre Beaumarchais