Moliere Quotes about Literature

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Reason is not what decides love.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

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

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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

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.

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

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

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.