Love Quote by Pierre Beaumarchais

Greedy, impossible, and a little bit smug, Beaumarchais's line turns romance into a logic trap: if love is the currency, there is no upper limit, no "enough" that can close the account. The phrase works because it borrows the grammar of appetite and flips it into a moral permission slip. "Too much" usually signals excess, embarrassment, the point where pleasure curdles into need. Here it's rebranded as proof of seriousness. Even "not even enough" doubles down, an emphatic stutter that mimics infatuation itself: the mind insisting, again and again, that the current dose won't do.

The subtext is less tender than it sounds. It flatters the speaker as someone capable of boundless feeling while quietly disarming criticism. If love cannot be overdone, then intensity can't be questioned, boundaries look like betrayal, and moderation becomes a kind of emotional stinginess. It's a romantic slogan with a libertine edge, suited to the late Enlightenment salon world where wit was social power and feeling could be both performance and weapon.

Context matters: Beaumarchais, better known as the playwright behind Figaro than as any "inventor", trafficked in characters who expose hypocrisy by speaking too plainly. This maxim has that same glint. It's an aphorism that sells desire as virtue, and in doing so reveals how easily passion can be used to justify taking more: more attention, more forgiveness, more access. The brilliance is its sugar-coated absolutism.