34 Quotes by Pierre Beaumarchais

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.

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.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn’t.

Be commonplace and creeping and you’ll be a success.

A writer’s inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.