341 Quotes by Molière

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Things only have the value that we give them

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.