Moliere
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.Collection: Self
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.Collection: Mean
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.Collection: Passion
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.Collection: Soul
There is no protection against slander.Collection: Protection
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.Collection: Laughter
Ah, there are no longer any children!Collection: Children
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.Collection: Kings
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.Collection: Cute
One can be well-bred and write bad poetryCollection: Writing
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.Collection: Wicked
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.Collection: Secret
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.Collection: Art
Birth is nothing where virtue is notCollection: Giving
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.Collection: Honor
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.Collection: Revenge
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.Collection: Marriage
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.Collection: Crafts
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.Collection: Believe
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.Collection: Husband
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.Collection: Essence
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.Collection: Love
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!Collection: Age
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.Collection: Happiness
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?Collection: Family
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.Collection: Cooking
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.Collection: Talking
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.Collection: Learning
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.Collection: Criticism
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.Collection: Age
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.Collection: People
Ah, there are no children nowadays.Collection: Children
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!Collection: Sex
You are a fool in four letters, my son.Collection: Son
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!Collection: Father
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.Collection: Effort
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?Collection: Philosophy
Malicious men may die, but malice never.Collection: Men
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.Collection: Mirrors
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.Collection: Love You
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.Collection: Perfect
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.Collection: Sarcastic
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.Collection: Marriage
Music and dance are all you need.Collection: Dancing
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.Collection: Sex
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.Collection: Excess
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The MisanthropeCollection: Kings