Quotes from Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

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

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

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

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.