Quotes About Beaumarchais

#1. A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#2. 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

#3. It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#4. I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#5. To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#6. Everything belonging to a loved one is precious.

Beaumarchais

#7. Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

#10. In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

Horace

#11. Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#12. Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#13. 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

#14. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#15. There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

George Santayana

#16. To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#17. I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#18. Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#19. We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

Charles Eisenstein

#20. Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#21. I actually feel about 15 percent peaceful, which is a huge improvement over my normal 5 percent.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#22. Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#23. I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#24. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#25. The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#26. 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

#27. The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#28. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Gary Wolf

#29. These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#30. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.

Cody McFadyen

#31. 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

#32. Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#33. I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#34. If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#35. If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.

Christopher West

#36. Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Pierre Beaumarchais