“ You always throw your absurdities into everything, and there's no teaching you to be reasonable. ”
Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670). copy citation
| Author | Molière |
|---|---|
| Source | The Bourgeois Gentleman |
| Topic | absurdity |
| Date | 1670 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Philip Dwight Jones |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Middle-Class_Gentleman |
Context
“(Madame Jourdain, Monsieur Jourdain, Cléonte, etc.)
MADAME JOURDAIN: What now? What's this? They say that you want to give your daughter in marriage to a someone in a Carnival costume?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Will you be quiet, impertinent woman? You always throw your absurdities into everything, and there's no teaching you to be reasonable.
MADAME JOURDAIN: It's you that there is no way of making wise, and you go from folly to folly. What is your plan, and what do you want to do with this assemblage of people?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: I want to marry our daughter to the son of the Grand Turk.”
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