Molière Quotes

93 Sourced Quotes

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

Molière
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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

Molière
People of quality know everything without ever having been taught anything.

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

Molière
What's needed in this world is an accommodating sort of virtue.

Molière
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Molière
It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess.

Molière
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Molière
He's an expeditious man, who likes to hurry his patients along; and when you have to die, he sees to that quicker than anyone.

Molière
Our minds need relaxation, and give way
Unless we mix with work a little play.

Molière
He makes his cook his merit,
And the world visits his dinners and not him.

Molière
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

Molière
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

Molière
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Molière
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Molière
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!

Molière
You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.

Molière
The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.

Molière
I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.

Molière
God, it is true, does some delights condemn,
But 'tis not hard to come to terms with Him.

Molière
We die only once, and for such a long time!

Molière
On some preference esteem is based;
To esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Molière
You've asked for it, Georges Dandin, you've asked for it.

Molière
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

Molière
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Molière
If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us.

Molière
My fair one, let us swear
An eternal friendship.

Molière
It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.

Molière
To create a public scandal is what's wicked;
To sin in private is not a sin.

Molière