Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIEREAll right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
More Moliere Quotes
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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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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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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