She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIEREWe always speak well when we manage to be understood.
More Moliere Quotes
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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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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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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