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
crafts lines firsts
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
people intelligence quality
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
salvation solace
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
scary solitude soul
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
laughter laughing sleeves
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
soul wounded bosoms
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
jobs work laughing
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
cooking world dinner
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
ambition dating romance
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
literature bears pockets
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
children
Ah, there are no longer any children!
fool
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
men medicine disease
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
eternal-friendship eternity swear
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.