Quotes from Moliere

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

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.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

We have changed all that.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.