Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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
Bears
Moral
Never
Reproof
Mockery
Satire
Ridicule
Easily
More quotes by Moliere
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
Moliere
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
Moliere
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Moliere
I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moliere
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Moliere
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Moliere
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Moliere
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Moliere
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Moliere
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere
It is the public scandal that offends to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
Moliere
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
Moliere
