L'avare Moliere Quotes

#1. There is no protection against slander.

Moliere

#2. All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

Moliere

#3. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Moliere

#4. There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Moliere

#5. Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Moliere

#6. People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Moliere

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

Moliere

#8. Too great haste leads us to error.

Moliere

#9. There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Moliere

#10. Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Moliere

#11. Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

#12. There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

Moliere

#13. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Moliere

#14. The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Moliere

#15. Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Moliere

#16. There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Moliere

#17. Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

Robert Englund

#18. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Moliere

#19. If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

Moliere

#20. If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Moliere

#21. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Moliere

#22. 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

#23. It is a long road from conception to completion.

Moliere

#24. We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

Moliere

#25. People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Moliere

#26. Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Moliere

#27. I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#28. Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

Moliere

#29. All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Moliere

#30. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

Judith Merkle Riley