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
speaking-well literature wells
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
medicine medical trade
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
perspective
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
wicked scandal privacy
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
want literature telling-the-truth
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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.
indulge-in literature gallantry
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
dancing needs music-and-dance
Music and dance are all you need.
scary solitude soul
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
spiritual arms height
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.