99+ Molière Quotes on Writing, Challenges and Sins of omission - Quotes.pub

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A woman always has her revenge ready.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

I will maintain it before the whole world.

It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

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

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Better to be married than dead!

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

There is no protection against slander.

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Assassination’s the fastest way.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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