Pierre Beaumarchais's Quotes

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

You are no better than you should be.

But what is past my help is past my care.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.