John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière. (1622–1673) (continued) |
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| The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners. 1 |
| Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| 9560 |
| 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. |
| 9561 |
| 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. |
| 9562 |
| The beautiful eyes of my cash-box. |
| L’Avare. Act v. Sc. 3. |
| 9563 |
| You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known. |
| L’Avare. Act v. Sc. 5. |
| 9564 |
| My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. 2 |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 9565 |
| I will maintain it before the whole world. |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 5. |
| 9566 |
| What the devil did he want in that galley? 3 |
| Les Forberies de Scapin. Act ii. Sc. 11. |
| 9567 |
| Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. 4 |
| Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6. |
| 9568 |
| Ah, there are no longer any children! |
| Le Malade Imaginaire. Act ii. Sc. 11. |
| Blaise Pascal. (1623–1662) |
| 9569 |
| Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. |
| Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10. |
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| It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. |
| Thoughts. Chap. iv. 1. |
| 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] |