I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERETo create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
More Moliere Quotes
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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