Top 200 Molière Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

— Molière

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2. “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”

— Molière

3. “Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”

— Molière

4. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

— Molière

5. “One should eat to live, not live to eat.”

— Molière

6. “The great ambition of women is to inspire love.”

— Molière

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7. “Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.”

— Molière

8. “Music and dance are all you need.”

— Molière

9. “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.”

— Molière

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10. “Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.”

— Molière

11. “Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.”

— Molière

12. “We die only once, and for such a long time.”

— Molière

13. “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.”

— Molière

14. “Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.”

— Molière

15. “People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.”

— Molière

16. “You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.”

— Molière

17. “Long is the road from conception to completion.”

— Molière

18. “Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”

— Molière

19. “It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.”

— Molière

20. “No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.”

— Molière

21. “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”

— Molière

22. “If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.”

— Molière

23. “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

— Molière

24. “Things are only worth what you make them worth.”

— Molière

25. “I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”

— Molière

26. “We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!”

— Molière

27. “The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”

— Molière

28. “Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

— Molière

29. “People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.”

— Molière

30. “My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

— Molière

31. “There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”

— Molière

32. “Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

— Molière

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

— Molière

34. “You are a fool in four letters, my son.”

— Molière

35. “One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”

— Molière

36. “Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.”

— Molière

37. “Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

— Molière

38. “The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.”

— Molière

39. “There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.”

— Molière

40. “He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.”

— Molière

41. “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.”

— Molière

42. “Books and marriage go ill together.”

— Molière

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43. “To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.”

— Molière

44. “It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.”

— Molière

45. “Gold makes the ugly beautiful.”

— Molière

46. “To live without loving is not really to live.”

— Molière

47. “The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?”

— Molière

48. “Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.”

— Molière

49. “I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.”

— Molière

50. “It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.”

— Molière