Pierre Beaumarchais quotes

Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous. (Pierre Beaumarchais)
Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Because you are a great lord, you believe that you are a great genius! You took the trouble to be born, no more. You remain an ordinary enough man!
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
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.
Pierre Beaumarchais
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. (Pierre Beaumarchais)
If censorship reigns, there cannot be sincere flattery, and none but little men are afraid of little writings.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Everything ends with songs.
Pierre Beaumarchais
What silly people wits are!
Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
That which is not worth speaking they sing.
Pierre Beaumarchais
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre Beaumarchais