Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Make
People
Respectable
Enterprise
Laugh
Laughing
Strange
More quotes by Moliere
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
Moliere
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
Moliere
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Moliere
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Moliere
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
Moliere
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
Moliere
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Moliere
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
Moliere
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Moliere
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Moliere
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
Moliere
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
Moliere
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
We are easily duped by those we love.
Moliere
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere
It is a folly second to none to try to improve the world.
Moliere
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
Moliere
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
Moliere
