Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIEREReason is not what decides love.
More Moliere Quotes
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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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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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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