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


Three popular French comedies (ed. Frederick Ungar, 1975)

Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

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

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

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

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