Pierre Beaumarchais famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Love #Romantic #Romance
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Laughter #Laughing #Cry
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Order #Personality #Understanding
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Writing #Government #Long
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Praise #Criticize
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Mean #Understanding #Speak
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Love #Men #Honest
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Laughter #Laughing
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
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.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Men #Land #Play
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.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Peace #Heart #Choices
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Wind #Fire #Light
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Sticks #Calumny
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Children #Pain #Play
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Success
I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Worry #Needs
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Belief
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Men #Fool #Pleasure
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Inspiration #Three
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Music #People #Today

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