The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

- 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

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

- 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

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

- Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

- Pierre Beaumarchais

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

- Pierre Beaumarchais

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

- Pierre Beaumarchais