Quotes from Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

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

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

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

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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

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

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

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

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

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

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

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'