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
love lying fall
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
doctors remarkable complaints
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
death rome grants
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
respect preference esteem
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
passion men smoking
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
revenge ready
A woman always has her revenge ready.
love-you each-day reason
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
dancing needs music-and-dance
Music and dance are all you need.
men dancing
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
self mortals
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
may humans
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
death shadow-of-death shadow
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
men may malice
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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.