Molière > Quotes

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
― Molière

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
― Molière

“Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
― Moli

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
― Molière

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
― Moliere

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
― Molière

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
― Molière

“My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”
― Moliere, The Misanthrope

“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
― Molière

“We die only once, and for such a long time.”
― Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

“I have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish.”
― Moliere, The Misanthrope

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
― Moliere

“One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.”
― Moliere

“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”
― Molière

“You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
― Molière

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
― Molière

“Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”
― Moliere

“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“One must eat to live and not live to eat.”
― Moliere

“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments”
― Moliere, The Misanthrope

“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”
― Molière

“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”
― Molière

“Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents”
― Molière, L'avare

“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”
― Molière, Tartuffe