What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIEREMy heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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