Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moli&egravere 1622-1673 John Bartlett


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.

Note 1.
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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