91 quotes
A woman is always a woman, and will never be anything but a woman as long as the world endures.
Le Dépit amoureux (1656)
The road is long from the project to its completion.
Le Tartuffe (1664)
The world will not reform for all your meddling.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
You speak before a man to whom all Naples is known.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
My lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.
Amphitryon (1666)
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.
Between the tree and the bark it is better not to put your finger.
If you want to play a trick on me, put your flutes more in accord.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Le Tartuffe (1664)
My lord Jupiter knows how to gild the pill.
Amphitryon (1690)
Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Tartuffe (1664)
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Tartuffe (1664)
Ah! to be devout, I am none the less human.
Tartuffe (1664)
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;
It is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Le Misanthrope (1666)