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
society trying world
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
fate artist ignorant
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
lonely stubborn crowds
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
world whole-world whole
I will maintain it before the whole world.
speaking-well literature wells
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
wicked scandal privacy
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
reform literature world
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
father married ancestor
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
years knowing heaven
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
long conception completion
Long is the road from conception to completion.
fine-words alive good-food
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
long persevere conception
It is a long road from conception to completion.
heaven literature compromise
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
best-love love-is criticism
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.