Moliere Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

  Moliere

  Wise, Patience, Wisdom

• Reason is not what decides love.

  Moliere

  Love, Marriage, Literature

• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

• I live on good soup, not on fine words.

  Moliere

  Food, Fine Words, Literature

• If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

  Moliere

  Integrity, Heart, Would Be

• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

  Moliere

  Errors, Haste, Literature

• Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

  Moliere

  Communication, Literature, Praying

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.134, Penguin

• I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

  Moliere

  Beautiful, Literature, Soup

• People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

  Moliere

  Mean, People, Mind

• If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

  Moliere

  Speaking Well, Literature, Wells

• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  Moliere

  Reform, Literature, World

  "The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

  Moliere

  People, Intelligence, Quality

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.27, Penguin

• There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

  Moliere

  Courage, Literature, Wells

• I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

  Moliere

  Literature, Littles, Faults

• He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

  Moliere

  Profound, Looks, Literature

• All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

  Moliere

  Literature, Prose, Verses

• Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

  Moliere

  Knowledge, Two, Literature

• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  Moliere

  Passion, Smoking, Literature

• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Literature, Matter

• It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

  Moliere

  Heaven, Literature, Compromise

• Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

  Moliere

  Literature, Theater, Please

• Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

  Moliere

  Scary, Soul, Solitude

• As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

  Moliere

  Men, Vices, Purpose

• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  Moliere

  Pockets, Literature, Bears

• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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