Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

— Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

— Moliere

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

— Moliere

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

— Moliere

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

— Moliere

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

— Moliere

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

— Moliere

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

— Moliere

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

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who…

— Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to…

— Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is…

— Moliere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give…

— Moliere

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where…

— Moliere

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack…

— Molière

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

— Moliere

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

— Moliere

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

— Moliere

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

— Moliere

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

— Moliere

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

— Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

— Moliere

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

— Moliere

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

— Moliere

“I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE”

— Molière

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

— Moliere

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

— Moliere

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

— Moliere

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”

— Molière

“All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind.   CLITANDRE”

— Molière

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

— Moliere

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

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

— Molière

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

— Moliere

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

— Moliere

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

— Moliere

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

— Moliere