Moliere Quotes - Page 9

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• We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

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  Art, Eye, Justice

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• Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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  Children, Pain, Debt

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• Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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  Knowledge, Two, Literature

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• Birth is nothing where virtue is not

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  Giving, Birth, Virtue

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• As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

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  Men, Vices, Purpose

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• And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

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  Funny, Christian, Money

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• Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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  Kings, Grammar

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• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

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  Passion, Literature, Matter

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• I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

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  Writing, Might, Chance

  Moliere (1965). “The Misanthrope”, p.27, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

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  Long, Desire, Arms

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• Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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  Air, Giving, Gold

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• Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

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  May, Humans

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• A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

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  Book, Greek, Titles

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 426, Preface. Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1922.

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• But it is not reason that governs love.

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  Reason

  "Le Misanthrope". I, 1, 1666.

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• When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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  Diction, Purpose, Speech

  "The Learned Ladies (Act II, Scene 6)". Book by Moliere, March 11, 1672.

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• Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

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  Husband, Law, Annoyed

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• I will maintain it before the whole world.

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  World, Whole, Whole World

  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme act 4, sc. 5 (1671)

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• The road is long fro the project to its completion.

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  Long, Projects, Completion

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• It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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  Heaven, Literature, Compromise

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• New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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  Love, Desire, Seduction

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• Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

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  Noble, Holy, Zeal

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• It is a long road from conception to completion.

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  Long, Persevere, Conception

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• Assassination's the fastest way.

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  Way, Assassination

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• I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

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  Father, Married, Ancestor

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• I recover my property wherever I find it.

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  Plagiarism, Property

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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