Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchaiswas a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth24 January 1732
CountryFrance
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung
love men honest
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
mean understanding speak
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
laughter laughing
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
advice sticks vilify
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
love-you treats ifs
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
praise criticize
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
craftiness
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
children pain play
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
belief ifs
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
writing government long
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
order personality understanding
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
laughter laughing cry
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
love romantic romance
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.