Moliere

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

How easy love makes fools of us.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Books and marriage go ill together.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.