Top 200 Molière Quotes (2024 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

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

— Molière

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

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

— Molière

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

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

16. “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

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

24. “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

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

29. “There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.”

— Molière

30. “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

31. “You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.”

— Molière

32. “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

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

41. “Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

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

— Molière

46. “People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.”

— Molière

47. “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

48. “With a smile we should instruct our youth...”

— Molière

49. “Books and marriage go ill together.”

— Molière

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50. “Ah, there are no children nowadays.”

— Molière