“ Everyone is everyone who is right and who is wiser than you. ”
Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670). copy citation
Author | Molière |
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Source | The Bourgeois Gentleman |
Topic | right |
Date | 1670 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Philip Dwight Jones |
Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Middle-Class_Gentleman |
Context
“None but fools and dolts will laugh at me wife.
MADAME JOURDAIN: Truly, they haven't waited until now, your antics have long given a laugh to everyone.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Who's everyone, if you please?
MADAME JOURDAIN: Everyone is everyone who is right and who is wiser than you. For my part, I am scandalized at the life you lead. I no longer recognize our house. One would say it's the beginning of Carnival here, every day; and beginning early in the morning, so it won't be forgotten, one hears nothing but the racket of fiddles and singers which disturbs the whole neighborhood.”
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