Pierre Beaumarchais Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

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

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.

Today if something is not worth saying, people 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.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

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.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung

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

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

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

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

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

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

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