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Alain-René Lesage
13 quotes
“A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then?”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to know the worth of a virtuous husband, is it not necessary for the wife to be dispirited herself? First, give her a young man of twenty, and not only will she be fine, she'll have a reasonable husband.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know any more than you what the future will hold. But my point of view is different. You see despair and I see cause for hope. I read the future in a way that is more agreeable than you do.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more I have to suffer, the more my character will grow.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Nicholas Boileau-despreaux
“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Nicholas Boileau-despreaux
“The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Nicholas Boileau-despreaux
“Plain as a pike-staff.”
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) first seen 1602 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book XII, ch. 7. Compare: "A flat case as plain as a pack-staff", Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act v, Scene 3.
Also quoted by: Nicholas Boileau-despreaux