Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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• Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Independence, Atheism, Praise

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• I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Cry

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Graham Anderson (1993). “The barber of Seville ; The marriage of Figaro ; The guilty mother: three plays”

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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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  Order, Personality, Understanding

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• The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Fire, Light, Wind

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• To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love You, Treats, Ifs

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• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Writing, Government, Long

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• I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

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  Men, Land, Play

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• If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Funny, Humorous, Opera

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• To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Craftiness

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• Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Men, Honest

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• Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

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  Children, Pain, Play

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

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  Men, Fool, Pleasure

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• Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

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  Peace, Heart, Choices

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Stupid

  "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act I, scene 2, 1775.

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• It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

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  Mean, Understanding, Speak

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• Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Success, Commonplace

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• I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

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  Laughter, Laughing

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• Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

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  Advice, Sticks, Vilify

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• Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

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  Music, People, Today

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• A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

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  Inspiration, Three, Three Times

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• I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

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  Worry, Needs, Heed

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Calumny Is, Sticks, Calumny

  "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.

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