Occupation: Playwright Birth: January 24, 1732 Death: May 18, 1799
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it..
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks..
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness..
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick..
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't..
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry..
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it..
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything..
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire..
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them..
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them..
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep..
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure..
I would rather worry without need than live without heed..
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them..
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..
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day..
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 h….
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise..
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die..
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success..