The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERETo find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
More Moliere Quotes
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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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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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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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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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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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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