Moliere Quotes

“Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted concupiscence for Elizabeth Bennet that springs not from her vivacity or from her wit but from her unerring instinct to follow the deeply moral directives of her own character even against the influences and arguments of society, of convention, of seeming necessity, and of her friends and family. Properly read, Austen should be a form of pornography for the morally and spiritually discriminating man.”
― Gerald Weaver, Gospel Prism

“The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said—has been said—that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Molière who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.”
― Peter B. Medawar, Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society

“C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science.”
― Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

“One has much wealth; his wife, so sweet and yet so bold,
Distributes it to those who'll crown him a cuckold.
The other, still a wretch, but with a kinder fate,
Observing gifts presented to his lifelong mate,
Maintains his peace of mind free from all jealousy,
For she says her virtue attracts this gallantry.”
― Maria-Cristina Necula, Molière The School for Wives: A Translation in Rhymed Verse

“For the first time she understood that just as bread is not merely bread but is also coarse, fine, salty, or sweet, a lie always tastes of the ingredients that go into it.”
― Richard Goodkin

“I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket!
But I got a little tired of the redundancy.”
― Natasha Tsakos