When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without… — Moliere Copy Share Image
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.… — 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
