The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREToo great haste leads us to error.
More Moliere Quotes
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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To 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.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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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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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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