91 quotes
A woman has always a revenge at hand.
Tartuffe (1664)
The flower called heliotrope turns without ceasing to that star of the day, so also my heart henceforth will turn itself always towards the resplendent stars of your adorable eyes, as towards its only pole.
On some preference esteem is based;
To esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Almost all men die of their remedies, not of their diseases.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Tartuffe (1664)
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
In your face, my brother, she is laughing at you.
Tartuffe (1664)
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
Ah, it's a lovely thing to know a thing or two.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
We die only once, and for such a long time!
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
You see him laboring to produce bons mots.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
Let's swear, my beauty, An eternal ardor.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
A clever woman is a devil at intrigue.
L'École des Femmes (1662)
He's a wonderful talker, who has the art
Of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
He makes his cook his merit,
And the world visits his dinners and not him.
Le Misanthrope (1666)
I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.
Amphitryon (1666)
Pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.