Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes & Sayings

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — 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

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I would rather worry without need than live without heed. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise. — Pierre Beaumarchais

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick. — Pierre Beaumarchais

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day. — Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. — Pierre Beaumarchais