Quotes by Pierre Beaumarchais

• 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.
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
• If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
• I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
• I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.