Molière Quotes

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!

"Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche."

"La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir."

debts now-a-days are like children, begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.

DORINE. Then what's your plan about this other match? MARIANE. To kill myself, if it is forced upon me. DORINE. Good! That's a remedy I hadn't thought of. Just die, and everything will be all right. This medicine is marvellous, indeed! It drives me mad to hear folk talk such nonsense. MARIANE. Oh dear, Dorine you get in such a temper! You have no sympathy for people's troubles. DORINE. I have no sympathy when folk talk nonsense, And flatten out as you do, at a pinch.

Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde, Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.

Quare Opium facit dormire: … Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva.

Ch. What does it matter that she fails in the laws of Vaugelas, provided she does not fail in the cooking? I would rather, I would, that in cleaning the vegetables she should make the verbs agree ill with the nouns, and say a hundred times a low or bad word, than that she should burn y my meat or put too much salt in my soup; I live on good soup, and not on fine language.

He makes his cook his merit, And the world visits his dinners and not him.

...че най-добре ще е да гледа Арсиноя
не чуждия живот какъв е, ами своя,
да види себе си по-хубаво, преди
сама над другите присъди да реди;
че трябва най-напред безукорни да бъдем,
а после грешките на другите да съдим,...

Los gobiernos formados por elementos heterogéneos no son duraderos.

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie,
Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

What the devil was he doing in that galley?