“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. — Moliere Copy Share Image
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides. — Moliere Copy Share Image
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere Copy Share Image
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere Copy Share Image
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière Copy Share Image
“If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people… — Molière 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
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe — 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
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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 Image
