Skip to content

The temper I am of requires me to keep away from court. Heaven, when it sent me into the world, did not give me a soul suited to the air of courts. I do not find in myself the virtues necessary to succeed, and make my fortune there. My chief talent is to be frank and sincere.

Another quote →

Topics

Honesty

More quotes by Molière

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.

All Molière quotes →

You may also like

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Homer Iliad (-750)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Molière (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.