Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.