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1622–1673 France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, more famous as Molière (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.
France Actors Playwrights Poets Satirists Also known as: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Moliere
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Tartuffe (1664)
The envious will die, but envy never.
Tartuffe (1664)
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
To create a public scandal is what's wicked;
Tartuffe (1664)
I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
Cover that bosom that I must not see:
Tartuffe (1664)
Love is often a fruit of marriage.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
You are a fool in three letters, my son.
Tartuffe (1664)
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
To speak prose without knowing it.
Too great haste leads us to error.
What the devil was he doing in that galley?
Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.
I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes.
Tartuffe (1664)
A woman always has her revenge ready.
Tartuffe (1664)
The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.
L'Avare (1668)
Heaven, when it sent me into the world, did not give me a soul suited to the air of courts. I do not find in myself the virtues necessary to succeed, and make my fortune there. My chief talent is to be frank and sincere.
Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
L'Avare (1668)
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