Quotes from Moliere

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

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

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

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

It is a long road from conception to completion.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

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

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.