Moliere Quotes - Page 10

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• Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

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  Honor, Jupiter, Adultery

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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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  Mean, Heaven, Matter

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 225-26, Tartuffe (1664), Act IV, scene 5, 1922.

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• Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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  Marriage, Two, Wife

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• To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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  Fool

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• I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

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  Crafts, Lines, Firsts

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.31, Penguin

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• A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

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  Husband, Cures, Girlhood

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• [Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

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  Believe, Heaven, Religion

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• You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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  Essence, People, Want

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

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  Love, Ambition, Dating

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• Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

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  Writing, Men, Honorable Man

  "Le Misanthrope" by Moliere, act IV, sc. i, 1666.

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• Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

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  Age, Morality, Sometimes

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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  Happiness, Believe, Enjoy

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• I have the knack of easing scruples.

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  Knack, Scruples

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• You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

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  Family, Marriage, Thinking

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• He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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  Cooking, World, Dinner

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

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  Pockets, Literature, Bears

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• My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

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  Talking, Years, Knowing

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• Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

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  Learning, Past, Reason

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

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  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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  People, Today

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• Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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  Children

  "The Imaginary Invalid". Musical by Molière, II. 2, 1673.

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• Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

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  Sex, Men, Hypocrisy

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• Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

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  Criticism, Locks, Misanthropy

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• You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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  Son, Four, Letters

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• Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

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  Age, Prudes, Twenties

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