Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

We drink when we are not thirsty and make love at any time, Madam. These are the only things which distinguish us from other animals.

Of all serious things, marriage is the most farcical.

Vices, indulgences, these are the things which never change but which disguise themselves in a thousand forms beneath the mask of prevailing morals: to lift off this mask and expose them, this is the noble task of the person who devotes himself to the theatre.

We hardly interest ourselves in the affairs of others when things are going well for ourselves.

I am quick to laugh at everything so as not to be obliged to cry.

Today, what is not worth being said is sung.