Pierre Beaumarchais

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

The most guilty people are the most generous ones this is the common law.