Moliere
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best known works are The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Bourgeois Gentleman...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 January 1622
CountryFrance
errors plus smallest
The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]
excess absence
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
knowledge two literature
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
purpose speech diction
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
firsts titles virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
intimacy deference wooing
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
noble holy zeal
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
literature prose verses
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
reading book single-life
Books and marriage go ill together.
heart secret our-actions
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
men he-man wit
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
writing men honorable-man
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
husband cures girlhood
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
mean heaven matter
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.