Moliere Quotes - Page 8

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• The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

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  Men, He Man, Wit

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• I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

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  Teaching, Names, Youth

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.42, Penguin

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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  Men, Wicked, Aristocracy

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• Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

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  Marriage, Wife, Guarantees

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.91, Penguin

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• Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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  Haste, May, Ends

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• He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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  Profound, Looks, Literature

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• It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

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  Jobs, Laughter, Work

  'La Critique de l'ècole des femmes' (1663) sc. 6

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• We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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  Self, Mortals

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• Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

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  Mean, Aristocracy, Birth

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• Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

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  Passion, Men, Smoking

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• Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

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  Soul, Wounded, Bosoms

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• There is no protection against slander.

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  Protection, Slander

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• It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

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  Crazy, Mad, Stupidity

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• I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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  Food, Fine Words, Literature

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• She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Sleeves

  "Tartuffe" by Molière, Act I, sc. V, 1664.

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• Ah, there are no longer any children!

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  Children

  "The Imaginary Invalid". Comédie-ballet by Moliere, act II, sc. xi, 1673.

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• Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

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  Years, Knowing, Heaven

  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme act 2, sc. 4 (1671)

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• Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

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  Kings, Inspiration, Hands

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 426, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), II. 6, 1922.

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• My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

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  Cute, Friendship, Eternity

  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme act 4, sc. 1 (1671)

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• One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

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  Writing, Poetry, Criticism

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• I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

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  Revenge, Best Revenge

  "The Doctor in Spite of Himself". Play by Molière, III, 9, 1667.

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• You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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  Essence, People, Want

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

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  Crafts, Lines, Firsts

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.31, Penguin

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• To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

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  Wicked, Scandal, Privacy

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• The envious will die, but envy never.
  [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

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  Envy, Envious, Dies

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