Moliere Quotes - Page 9

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

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

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

But it is not reason that governs love.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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

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

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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

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

The road is long fro the project to its completion.

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

Assassination's the fastest way.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

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

I will maintain it before the whole world.

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

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

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

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.