Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

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Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais
Because you are a great lord, you believe that you are a great genius! You took the trouble to be born, no more. You remain an ordinary enough man!

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

Pierre Beaumarchais
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais
Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais
We drink without being thirsty, and make love at any moment; that is the only distinction between us and the other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais
If you assure me that your intentions are honorable.

Pierre Beaumarchais
Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.

Pierre Beaumarchais
Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be.

Pierre Beaumarchais
If censorship reigns there cannot be sincere flattery, and only small men are afraid of small writings.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais
Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous.

Pierre Beaumarchais
That which is not worth speaking they sing.

Pierre Beaumarchais
Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy valets?

Pierre Beaumarchais
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.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais
If you haven't enough up here to keep a good servant, I'm not so stupid as to dismiss such a good master.

Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.

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Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

Pierre Beaumarchais
You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all.

Pierre Beaumarchais
If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed.

Pierre Beaumarchais
To drink without thirst, to make love without cessation: this is what distinguishes us from the lower animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais
I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it.

Pierre Beaumarchais