Moliere Quotes - Page 5

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

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

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Music and dance are all you need.

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.

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.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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

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

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

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.