People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERETo create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
More Moliere Quotes
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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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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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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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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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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