The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIEREAge brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
More Moliere Quotes
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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