Pierre Beaumarchais quotes

Pierre Beaumarchais was a French playwright, inventor, and political activist renowned for his satirical plays. His most famous works include "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," which had a significant impact on both literature and society. He also played an important role in political and commercial affairs during the tumultuous years before and after the French Revolution. Here are 20 of his quotes:

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

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