Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Moliere (French Playwright)

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622–73,) known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered the creator of modern French comedy.

Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in Paris, Molière declined to join his father’s carpet and upholstery business as a young man. He fled with an actress and her family’s wandering theater troupe. They toured all around the provinces with great success, but kept away from Paris; Molière had been previously imprisoned there for large debts for which he became responsible. When they did return to Paris eventually, Molière tried to win the king’s favor by presenting a tragedy, but Molière received bad reviews for his acting.

Molière found success only when he performed his short farce, Love Is the Doctor. King Louis XIV became a champion of Molière’s work, and even performed as a ballet dancer in one of them.

Molière’s popular plays include the original stage comedies The School for Wives (1662,) Don Juan (1665,) Tartuffe (1666,) The Misanthrope (1666,) The Miser (1668,) The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670,) and The Imaginary Invalid (1673.)

Molière’s works gained widespread success with the public, even if they were criticized by conservative reviewers, the Catholic church, and medical professionals. Other playwrights and theater troupes copied his theatrical style in France and England.

The French national theater, the Comédie-Française, has been popularly known as “La Maison de Molière” (The House of Molière.)

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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Moliere
Topics: Marriage

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
Moliere
Topics: Hypocrisy, Fashion

An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
Topics: Fools

Virtue is the first title of nobility.
Moliere
Topics: Titles

Haste is not always speed. We must learn to work and wait. This is like God, who perfects his works through beautiful gradations.
Moliere
Topics: Haste

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
Topics: Marriage

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere
Topics: Vice

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
Moliere
Topics: Wit

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere
Topics: Charity

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
Moliere

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere

To live without loving is not really to live.
Moliere
Topics: Love

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere
Topics: Pleasure

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
Moliere
Topics: Knowledge

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
Topics: Thinking, Criticism, Hypocrisy, Critics

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere
Topics: Joy

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
Moliere
Topics: Health

We should conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.—Excess either way shocks, and every wise man should attend to this in his dress as well as language; never be affected in anything, but follow, without being in too great haste, the changes of fashion.
Moliere
Topics: Fashion

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Moliere
Topics: Communication

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere
Topics: One liners, Weight, Food, Eating, Diet

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Moliere
Topics: Gold

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Moliere
Topics: Intelligence, Class

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere
Topics: Change, Consistency

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Moliere
Topics: Hate

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
Topics: Aptness, Appropriateness

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
Topics: Friendship, Candor, Flattery

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
Moliere
Topics: Hypocrisy

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere
Topics: Foolishness, Fools

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere
Topics: Nation, Nationalism, Nations, Nationality

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