Moliere People Quotations

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

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.