Best 18 quotes of Pierre Beaumarchais on MyQuotes

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

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.

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

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.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

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 would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.