Molière Quotes

The world is only too glad to discover anything to carp at.

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.

The heart can do anything.

What the deuce does he mean by all this? I thought I had found a clever man who would give me good advice, and I find a chimney-sweep, who, instead of speaking to me, plays at mora.

If all hearts were candid, just, and tractable, most of our virtues would be useless to us, inasmuch as their functions are to bear, without annoyance, the injustice of others in our good cause; and just in the same way as a heart full of virtue

Loin d'être aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie,
Mariez-vous, ma soeur, à la philosophie.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;
But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Ah! Il n'y a plus d'enfants!

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

J'aime mieux un vice commode, Qu'une fatigante vertu.

Bah!, non andiamo a pensare a quel che può capitarci e pensiamo soltanto a quel che può darci piacere.

MADAME PERNELLE. For slanderers abound in calumnies . . . ORGON. Mother, you'd make me damn my soul. I tell you I saw with my own eyes his shamelessness. MADAME PERNELLE. Their tongues for spitting venom never lack, There's nothing here below they'll not attack. ORGON. Your speech has not a single grain of sense. I saw it, harkee, saw it, with these eyes I saw — d'ye know what saw means? — must I say it A hundred times, and din it in your ears?

I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!

Plus on aime quelqu'un, moins il faut qu'on le flatte: À rien pardonner le pur amour éclate.

Since more convincing proof is still demanded, I must make up my mind to humour people. If my consent give reason for offence, So much the worse for him who forced me to it;