Moliere Quotes - Page 8

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.

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

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

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

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

There is no protection against slander.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

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

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

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

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

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

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

Birth is nothing where virtue is not