Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchaiswas a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth24 January 1732
CountryFrance
Pierre Beaumarchais quotes about
love romantic romance
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
laughter laughing cry
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
order personality understanding
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
writing government long
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
craftiness
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
advice sticks vilify
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
laughter laughing
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
wind fire light
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
calumny-is sticks calumny
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
children pain play
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
success commonplace
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
music people today
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
gets music saying
These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.