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
worry needs heed
I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
music people today
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
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.
love men honest
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
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.
belief ifs
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
writing government long
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.