Pierre Beaumarchais

Quote: Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en
raisonner.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en
pleurer.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: That which is not worth speaking they sing.
[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante.]
[Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung [Pierre Beaumarchais]

Quote: 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 Beaumarchais]

Quote: Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. [Pierre Beaumarchais]

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