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
courage wells piety
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
kings inspiration hands
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws
wise perfect sobriety
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
want literature telling-the-truth
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
malice
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
society trying world
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
fate artist ignorant
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
lonely stubborn crowds
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
world whole-world whole
I will maintain it before the whole world.
speaking-well literature wells
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
wicked scandal privacy
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
reform literature world
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
father married ancestor
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
years knowing heaven
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.