Occupation: Playwright Birth: January 24, 1732 Death: May 18, 1799
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day..
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..
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise..
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..
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them..
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….
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..
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die..