Molière Quotes

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The scandal of the world is what makes the offense: it is not sinful to sin in silence.

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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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I tell you that marriage is holy and sacred, and to start out by getting married is to behave in a proper fashion.

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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

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It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.

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It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.

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He's a wonderful talker, who has the art
Of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

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Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.

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It is permitted me to take good fortune where I find it.

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To make love only when signing the marriage certificate, is to take romance by the tail.

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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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Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

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Rags and tatters, if you like: I am fond of my rags and tatters.

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One should look long and carefully at oneself before one considers judging others.

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My lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

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Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.

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Cover that bosom that I must not see:
Souls are wounded by such things.

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What the devil was he doing in that galley?

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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

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I will maintain it before the whole world.

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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

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Géronte: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
Sganarelle: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.

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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

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M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose?
Philosophy Teacher: Yes, Sir.
M. Jourdain: Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

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I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.

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Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

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