Quotes from Moliere

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Books and marriage go ill together.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

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.

You've asked for it, Georges Dandin, you've asked for it.

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

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.