Pierre Beaumarchais quotes:

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

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

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

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.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

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

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

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

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

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung

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

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

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

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

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

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.

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

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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