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
firsts titles virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
intimacy deference wooing
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
noble holy zeal
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
literature prose verses
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
reading book single-life
Books and marriage go ill together.
heart secret our-actions
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
men he-man wit
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
writing men honorable-man
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
husband cures girlhood
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
mean heaven matter
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
learning past reason
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
sex men hypocrisy
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
believe two eight
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
writing might chance
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.