What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIEREEverything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
More Moliere Quotes
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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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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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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