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Quotes from Le Méchant — Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

1709–1777 France

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12 quotes

All is wrong, all is right, all the world is content.

Le Méchant (1745)

The eagle in one house is in the next a fool.

Le Méchant (1745)

Her eyes, for country eyes, are really fine.

Le Méchant (1745)

For our amusement fools are born on earth.

Le Méchant (1745)

All living things are made to be our toys;
Who mocks the world, alone the world enjoys.

Le Méchant (1745)

What will be ours one day we count our own.

Le Méchant (1745)

On our first step depends our whole career.

Le Méchant (1745)

Secret informing brings an honest man to shame;
I charge because I must, nor seek to hide my name.

Le Méchant (1745)

'Tis the gods' fault that made her such a fool.

Le Méchant (1745)

Mais Paris guérit tout et les absents ont tort.

Le Méchant (1745)

L'esprit qu’on veut avoir gâte celui qu’on a.

Le Méchant (1745)

Not of their morals would I have men chatter;
A vice or a disgrace is no great matter;
All this is by the world forgotten quick;
Throw ridicule upon them, that will stick.

Le Méchant (1745)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.