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
attention world safe
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
cooking world dinner
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
trying earth world
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
world strange affair
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
kings heart world
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope
silence world scandal
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
society trying world
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
world whole-world whole
I will maintain it before the whole world.
reform literature world
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
love heart other-worlds
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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.