--- title: "10 May Quotes By Moliere" description: "10 May quotes by Moliere. Plus more from Moliere and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/moliere-965_devout_ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a_2120844.png" --- > [Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a-man/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/moliere-965_devout_ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a_2120844.png) > [Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/anyone-may-be-an-honorable-man-and-yet-write-verse-badly/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/moliere-965_honorable_anyone-may-be-an-honorable-man-and-yet-w_10674.png) > [Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/oh-i-may-be-devout-but-i-am-human-all-the-same/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/moliere-965_devout_oh-i-may-be-devout-but-i-am-human-all-th_834853.png) > [Malicious men may die, but malice never.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/malicious-men-may-die-but-malice-never/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c7/moliere-965_malice_malicious-men-may-die-but-malice-never-1_1873812.png) > [Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/stay-awhile-that-we-may-make-an-end-the-sooner/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/moliere-965_awhile_stay-awhile-that-we-may-make-an-end-the_881237.png) > [The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/the-absence-of-the-beloved-short-though-it-may-last-always-lasts-too/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/moliere-965_absence_the-absence-of-the-beloved-short-though_2452742.png) > [And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/and-knowing-money-is-a-root-of-evil-in-christian-charity-he-d-take/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/367/moliere-965_charity_and-knowing-money-is-a-root-of-evil-in-c_2742432.png) > [No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/no-reason-makes-it-right-to-shun-accepted-ways-from-stubborn-spite/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/moliere-965_accepted_no-reason-makes-it-right-to-shun-accepte_761174.png) > [The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/the-art-of-flatterers-is-to-take-advantage-of-the-foibles-of-the/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/moliere-965_advantage_the-art-of-flatterers-is-to-take-advanta_376331.png) > [It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/it-may-cost-me-twenty-thousand-francs-but-for-twenty-thousand-francs/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e5/moliere-965_cost_it-may-cost-me-twenty-thousand-francs-bu_2152379.png) ## Other authors on May ## More by Moliere > [I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/i-might-by-chance-write-something-just-as-shoddy-but-then-i-wouldn-t/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/tobacco-is-the-passion-of-honest-men-and-he-who-lives-without-tobacco/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/cover-that-bosom-that-i-must-not-see-souls-are-wounded-by-such-things/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/outside-of-paris-there-is-no-hope-for-the-cultured/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/even-rome-cannot-grant-us-a-dispensation-from-death/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/anyone-may-be-an-honorable-man-and-yet-write-verse-badly/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/the-beautiful-eyes-of-my-cash-box/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/he-makes-his-cook-his-merit-and-the-world-visits-his-dinners-and-not/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/show-some-mercy-to-this-chair-which-has-stretched-out-its-arms-to-you/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/in-order-to-prove-a-friend-to-one-s-guests-frugality-must-reign-in/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/in-society-one-needs-a-flexible-virtue-too-much-goodness-can-be/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/some-of-the-most-famous-books-are-the-least-worth-reading-their-fame/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Assassination's the fastest way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/assassination-s-the-fastest-way/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/nothing-can-be-fairer-or-more-noble-than-the-holy-fervor-of-true-zeal/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) > [Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/words-and-deeds-are-far-from-being-one-much-that-is-talked-about-is/) [Moliere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moliere/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/moliere/#itemlist", "name": "10 May Quotes By Moliere", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Moliere" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moliere/ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/moliere-965_devout_ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a_2120844.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/moliere-965_devout_ah-devout-though-i-may-be-i-am-no-less-a_2120844.png", "url": 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