Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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
Pious
Although
Less
Men
More quotes by 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
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
Moliere
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Moliere
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
Moliere
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Moliere
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Moliere
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Moliere
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
To create a public scandal is what's wicked to sin in private is not a sin.
Moliere
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Moliere
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Moliere
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere
