Moliere

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Do you think a Greek name gives more weight to your reasons?

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

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

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

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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

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

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

One should eat to live not live to eat.

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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

The secret to fencing consists in two things to give and to not receive.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure but brought forth in pain.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

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.

We are easily fooled by that which we love.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Books and marriage go ill together.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Theres a sort of decency among the dead a remarkable discretion you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them

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

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The road is long from the project to its completion.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Grammar which knows how to control even kings.

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

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

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

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

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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.

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

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Reason is not what decides love.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

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

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

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

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

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

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

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.