Molière Quotes

1622–1673 France

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, more famous as Molière (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.

France
Actors
Playwrights
Poets
Satirists

Also known as: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Moliere

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All extremes does perfect reason flee,
And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

Le Misanthrope (1666)

If you wish to love, it shall be, by my faith, for their beautiful eyes.

Repartee is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Rome can give no dispensation from death.

The smallest errors are always the best.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

We are all mortal, and each one is for himself.

What the devil was he doing in this galley?

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

The beautiful eyes of my money-box!
He speaks of it as a lover of his mistress.

Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

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

Sganarelle (1660)

It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.

Le Misanthrope (1666)

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

Le Misanthrope (1666)

You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.

L'Avare (1668)

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

No one shall have wit save we and our friends.

I shall make you an impromptu at my leisure.

I will maintain it before the whole world.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)

But it is not reason that governs love.

Le Misanthrope (1666)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Molière (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.