Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. - Pierre Beaumarchais
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't. - Pierre Beaumarchais
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick. - Pierre Beaumarchais
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire. - Pierre Beaumarchais
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. - Pierre Beaumarchais
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them. - Pierre Beaumarchais
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. - Pierre Beaumarchais
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness. - Pierre Beaumarchais
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
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