Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.”

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.”

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“I would rather worry without need than live without heed.”

— 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

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung”

— Pierre Beaumarchais

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“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