I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
