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
art errors giving
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
learning past reason
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
sex men hypocrisy
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
believe two eight
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
writing might chance
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
order guests reign
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
wisdom fun fool
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
passion smoking literature
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
innocence accustomed
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
knack scruples
I have the knack of easing scruples.
teaching names youth
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
secret scandal sin
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
scholarship scholar prose
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
talking years knowing
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.