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
love men honest
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
men land play
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
men fool pleasure
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
music people today
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
worry needs heed
I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
success commonplace
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
calumny-is sticks calumny
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
wind fire light
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
laughter laughing
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
advice sticks vilify
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
love-you treats ifs
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
praise criticize
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
craftiness
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
children pain play
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.