Quotes from Moliere

Soit qu'on fasse bien ou soit qu'on fasse mal, on est toujours payé de même sorte.

Mais la grande marque d'amour, c'est d'être soumis aux volontés de celle qu'on aime.

La curiosité naît de la jalousie

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.

Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din min?i.

Il faut qu'il ait tué bien des gens pour s'être fait si riche.

Kebahagiaan yang tidak ada habis-habisnya akan membosankan. Itulah sebabnya kita mengalami pasang surut dalam hidup ini.

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.

The public scandal is what brings offence, And secret sinning is not sin at all.

DORINE. Then what's your plan about this other match? MARIANE. To kill myself, if it is forced upon me. DORINE. Good! That's a remedy I hadn't thought of. Just die, and everything will be all right. This medicine is marvellous, indeed! It drives me mad to hear folk talk such nonsense. MARIANE. Oh dear, Dorine you get in such a temper! You have no sympathy for people's troubles. DORINE. I have no sympathy when folk talk nonsense, And flatten out as you do, at a pinch.

He always wanted to return a part. "It is too much," he'd say, "too much by half; I am not worthy of your pity." Then, When I refused to take it back, he'd go, Before my eyes, and give it to the poor.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

Par ma foi ! il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. »

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

That virtue here below is hated ever; The envious may die, but envy never.