Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Strauss) quotes

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For more than forty years I've been speaking in prose without even knowing it!
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
You must shock the Bourgeois.
(Il faut épater le bourgeois.)
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Style is the man himself.
[Le style c'est l'homme même.]
Her mind is inferior to that of man, and we know that it requires the strongest of minds to become a good politician.... She has n ...
Phlébas, le Phénicien, pendant quinze jours noyé,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille.
Regarde
Le directeur
Du Spectateur
Conservateur
Et crève d'amour.
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, l ...
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