Famous Quotes / Jean Baptiste Moliere
30 Quotations by Jean Baptiste Moliere
- 1. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
- 2. Books and marriage go ill together.
- 3. Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
- 4. Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
- 5. Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
- 6. Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
- 7. Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
- 8. He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
- 9. I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
- 10. It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
- 11. It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
- 12. It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
- 13. Long is the road from conception to completion.
- 14. Love is often the fruit of marriage.
- 15. Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
- 16. Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
- 17. Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
- 18. Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
- 19. One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- 20. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.