Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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
Greatest
Literature
Rule
Rules
Theater
Please
Simply
More quotes by Moliere
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Moliere
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Moliere
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Moliere
Gold is the key, whatever else we try and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Moliere
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Moliere
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
Moliere
How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere
I have a heart to love all the world and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
Moliere
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
Moliere
I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moliere
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Moliere
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
Moliere
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
To create a public scandal is what's wicked to sin in private is not a sin.
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
