Molière: Quotes about the world
Molière was French playwright and actor. Explore interesting quotes on world.“The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.”
Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose.
L'École des Femmes (1662), Act II, sc. v
“I will maintain it before the whole world.”
Je le soutiendrai devant tout le monde.
Act IV, sc. iii
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
“The world will not reform for all your meddling.”
Et c’est une folie, à nulle autre, seconde,
De vouloir se mêler de corriger le monde.
As published in Le Misanthrope, Molière, tr. Curtis Hidden Page, G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1913), p. 12
Variant translation: Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
As contained in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p.772 : ISBN 0231071949
Act I, sc. 1, lines 155-156 (Philinte)
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“He makes his cook his merit,
And the world visits his dinners and not him.”
Que de son cuisinier il s'est fait un mérite,
Et que c'est à sa table à qui l'on rend visite.
Act II, sc. iv
Le Misanthrope (1666)