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Quotes from Le Barbier de Séville — Pierre Beaumarchais

1732–1799 France

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Nowadays, whatever is not worth saying is sung.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

An accountant was the person wanted, but a dancer got the place.

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

What silly people wits are!

Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Beaumarchais (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.