Top 200 Molière Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.”

— Molière

102. “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.”

— Molière

103. “Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.”

— Molière

104. “Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.”

— Molière

105. “I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.”

— Molière

106. “Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.”

— Molière

107. “Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.”

— Molière

108. “Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”

— Molière

109. “I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.”

— Molière

110. “Birth is nothing where virtue is not.”

— Molière

111. “But it is not reason that governs love.”

— Molière

112. “Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”

— Molière

113. “No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.”

— Molière

114. “Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.”

— Molière

115. “We always speak well when we manage to be understood.”

— Molière

116. “Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.”

— Molière

117. “All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.”

— Molière

118. “The road is long fro the project to its completion.”

— Molière

119. “There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.”

— Molière

120. “Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.”

— Molière

121. “How easy love makes fools of us.”

— Molière

122. “I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.”

— Molière

123. “Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.”

— Molière

124. “Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.”

— Molière

125. “Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.”

— Molière

126. “Time has nothing to do with the matter.”

— Molière

127. “Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”

— Molière

128. “According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.”

— Molière

129. “I recover my property wherever I find it.”

— Molière

130. “We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.”

— Molière

131. “There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.”

— Molière

132. “We are easily duped by those we love.”

— Molière

133. “To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.”

— Molière

134. “The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.”

— Molière

135. “You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.”

— Molière

136. “One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.”

— Molière

137. “I have the knack of easing scruples.”

— Molière

138. “All is wholesome in the absence of excess.”

— Molière

139. “Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.”

— Molière

140. “I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.”

— Molière

141. “Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.”

— Molière

142. “I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.”

— Molière

143. “Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!”

— Molière

144. “Two wives? That exceeds the custom.”

— Molière

145. “Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.”

— Molière

146. “All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.”

— Molière

147. “I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.”

— Molière

148. “When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.”

— Molière

149. “Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?”

— Molière

150. “He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.”

— Molière