| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière. (1622–1673) |
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| 1 | | The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. |
| L’École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6. |
| 2 | | There are fagots and fagots. |
| Le Médecin malgré lui. Act i. Sc. 6. |
| 3 | | We have changed all that. |
| Le Médecin malgré lui. Act ii. Sc. 6. |
| 4 | | Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. |
| Le Tartuffe. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 5 | | The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners. 1 |
| Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 6 | | Ah that I— You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve. |
| George Dandin. Act i. Sc. 19. |
| 7 | Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
I am addressing myself—I am addressing myself to my cap. |
| L’Avare. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 8 | | The beautiful eyes of my cash-box. |
| L’Avare. Act v. Sc. 3. |
| 9 | | You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known. |
| L’Avare. Act v. Sc. 5. |
| 10 | | My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. 2 |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 11 | | I will maintain it before the whole world. |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 5. |
| 12 | | What the devil did he want in that galley? 3 |
| Les Forberies de Scapin. Act ii. Sc. 11. |
| 13 | | Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. 4 |
| Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6. |
| 14 | | Ah, there are no longer any children! |
| Le Malade Imaginaire. Act ii. Sc. 11. |
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See Dryden, Quotation 106. [back] | Note 2.
See Frere, Quotation 2. [back] | Note 3.
Borrowed from Cyrano de Bergerac’s “Pédant joué,” act ii. sc. 4. [back] | Note 4.
Sigismund I, at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty’s grammar, “Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam” (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar). [back] |
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