A biography for Pierre Beaumarchaishasn’t been written yet.
“Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.”
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”
“These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.”
“Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.”
“As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.”
“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.”
“If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.”