Pierre Beaumarchais 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.

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

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

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

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

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

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

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.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

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

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

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

Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.