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
Pass
Fashion
Virtue
Hypocrite
Fashionable
Hypocrisy
Vice
Vices
More quotes by Moliere
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Moliere
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
Moliere
It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
Moliere
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Moliere
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Moliere
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Moliere
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?
Moliere
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
Moliere
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Moliere
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
Moliere
In society one needs a flexible virtue too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
