It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
More Moliere Quotes
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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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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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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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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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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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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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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