Moliere

Books and marriage go ill together.

— Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

— Moliere

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

— Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

— Moliere

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

— Moliere

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

— Moliere

Long is the road from conception to completion.

— Moliere

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

— Moliere

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

— Moliere

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

— Moliere

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

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

— Moliere

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

— Moliere

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

— Moliere

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

— Moliere

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

— Moliere

I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.

— Moliere

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

— Moliere