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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore 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.

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

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.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

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

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.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

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.