The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIEREHe must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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