Top 100 Quotes About Moliere
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
Michael Mando
#5. Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.
Terry Teachout
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.
Christine Woods
#9. I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff
Tavis Smiley
#10. I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket!
But I got a little tired of the redundancy.
Natasha Tsakos
#11. In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey
#12. Essay on tragedy.
(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
(3) Moliere.
(4) The spirit of revolt.
Albert Camus
#13. The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
Zadie Smith
#14. I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
Ving Rhames
#16. 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
#17. I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Louis Garrel
#18. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
Alain Resnais
#20. 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
#21. There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
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#22. All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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#23. Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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#24. Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
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#25. People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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#26. 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
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#27. It is a long road from conception to completion.
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#28. 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.
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#29. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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#30. If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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#31. If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
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#32. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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#33. There is no protection against slander.
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#34. Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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#35. The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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#36. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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#37. There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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#38. Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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#39. Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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#40. There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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#41. Too great haste leads us to error.
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#42. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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#43. People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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#44. Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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#45. There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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#46. 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?
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#47. All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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#48. Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!
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#49. Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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#50. According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
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#51. Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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#52. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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#53. Books and marriage go ill together.
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#54. Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.
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#55. To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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#56. There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
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#57. 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!
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#58. Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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#59. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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#60. The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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#61. The heart can do anything.
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#62. Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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#63. No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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#64. We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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#65. I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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#66. I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.
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#67. Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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#68. We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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#69. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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#70. Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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#71. The envious will die, but envy never.
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#72. We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
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#73. Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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#74. I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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#75. I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
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#76. The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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#77. All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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#78. The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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#81. Ah, there are no longer any children!
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#82. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
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#83. Your humour, madam, Gives any and everyone too easy access Into your heart. You have too many lovers Besieging you - a thing I can't endure.
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#84. Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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#85. We are easily duped by those we love.
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#86. We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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#87. If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?
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#88. They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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#89. There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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#90. Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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#91. I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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#92. No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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#93. Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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#94. Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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#95. You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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#96. All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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#97. Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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#98. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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#99. Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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#100. All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind. CLITANDRE
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