Skip to content

You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.

— Molière L'Avare (1668)

Vous parlez devant un homme à qui tout Naples est connu.

Original text (French)

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

Act V, scene v

More quotes by Molière

A woman is always a woman, and will never be anything but a woman as long as the world endures.

Le Dépit amoureux (1656)

The road is long from the project to its completion.

Le Tartuffe (1664)

The world will not reform for all your meddling.

Le Misanthrope (1666)

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Les Femmes Savantes (1672)

You speak before a man to whom all Naples is known.

All Molière quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Molière (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.