L'avare Moliere Quotes & Sayings

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste. — Moliere

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined — Moliere

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred. — Moliere

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive. — Moliere

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word. — Moliere

I recover my property wherever I find it. — Moliere

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. — Katy Mixon

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose. — Moliere

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. — Moliere

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. — Moliere

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. — Dennis Quaid

Malicious men may die, but malice never. — Moliere

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson. — Stephen Leacock

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. — Moliere

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never. ORGON — Moliere

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Moliere

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please? — Moliere

Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my astonishment that I had been immersed in philosophical problems all my life. And I had been drawn into the same problems as great philosophers by the same felt need to make sense of the world...The chief difference between me and them, of course, was that whereas they had something to offer by way of solutions to the problems, I had failed even to formulate very rich or sophistocated versions of the problems, let alone work my way through to defensible solutions for them. In consequence I fell on their work like a starving man on food, and it has done a geat deal to nourish and sustain me ever since. — Bryan Magee

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere

You are a fool in four letters, my son. — Moliere

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. — Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism. — Moliere

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests. — Moliere

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. — Moliere

Leave out the parts readers tend to skip. (Elmore Leonard)

First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money. (Moliere) — Jan Shapin

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere

My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious! — Moliere

Englishmen have always loved Moliere. — Lytton Strachey