Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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
Fashionable
Hypocrisy
Vice
Vices
Pass
Fashion
Virtue
Hypocrite
More quotes by Moliere
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
Moliere
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
Moliere
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
Moliere
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
Moliere
It may cost me twenty thousand francs but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
Moliere
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
Moliere
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Moliere
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Moliere
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
Moliere
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Moliere
