The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERETo 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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