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
book reading done
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
book good-friend bottles
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
dance book skills
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
reading book single-life
Books and marriage go ill together.
book reading writing
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
book greek pages
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
value
Things only have the value that we give them
condemning examine human-nature oneself others thinking time
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
love shows pure
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
people wicked way
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
mirrors faults satire
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
bears moral satire
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
hatred humanity cost
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
men wicked aristocracy
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.