Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
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“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Graham Anderson (1993). “The barber of Seville ; The marriage of Figaro ; The guilty mother: three plays”
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“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
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“As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.”
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“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”
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“It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.”
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“Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.”
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“I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.”
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“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act I, scene 2, 1775.
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“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 how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.”
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“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.”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
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“The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.”
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“Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.
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“Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
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“Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.”
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“I would rather worry without need than live without heed.”
-- Pierre BeaumarchaisSource : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
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“If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.”
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“Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.”
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“A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.”
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“Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.”
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