Moliere Quotes - Page 6

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• Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

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  Consistency, Ridicule, Suitable

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• Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

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  Hypocrite, Giving, Hypocrisy

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• In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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  Men, Clothes, Giving

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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  Literature, Prose, Verses

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• We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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  Communication, Speak, Wells

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• Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

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  Money, People, Consideration

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• Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

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  Action, Courses

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• Long is the road from conception to completion.

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  Long, Conception, Completion

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• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

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  Inspirational, Break Up, Pride

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• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

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  Poison, Tongue, Proof

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• It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

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  Love, Thinking, Joy

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• Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

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  Play, Giving, Effort

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.45, Penguin

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• Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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  Death, Rome, Grants

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• There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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  Doctors, Remarkable, Complaints

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• I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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  Annoyed, Vices, Annoying

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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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  Dance, Skills, Dancing

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• A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

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  Funny Love, Dog, Teenage Love

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• Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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  Heart, Men, Noble Man

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• I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

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  Believe, Eight, Two

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• One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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  Heartbreak, Infidelity, Deceit

  "Le Tartuffe" (1664), IV. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 182-183), 1922.

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• Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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  Thinking, Dust, Long

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• What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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  Names, Giving, Hypocrisy

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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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  Respect, Preference, Esteem

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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  Fine Words, Alive, Good Food

  'Les femmes savantes' (1672) act 2, sc. 7

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• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

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  Vices, Birth, Virtue

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