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
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.
people intelligence quality
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
people drug able
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
people promise deeds
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
people stupidity praise
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
fashion passion people
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
laughing people strange
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
people today
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
money people consideration
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
people trying sides
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
death medicine people
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
mean people mind
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
worry people happens
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
essence people want
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.