Jean-François Regnard

thumb|Allons, saute Marquis!Come, Marquis, jump for joy! Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709) was a French dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681. Quotes C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les grands courages. It is in great dangers that we see great courage. Le Légataire universel (1708), act 4, sc. 1 — Erste (tr. Ramage, 1880) Le Joueur (1696) Près du sexe tu vins, tu vis, et tu vainquis: Que ton sort est heureux! Allons, saute Marquis! You come near the sex, see, and conquer—my boy! You're the luckiest of mortals! Jump, marquis, for joy! (The soi-disant Marquis's self-congratulatory soliloquy) act 4, sc. 10 — The Marquis (tr. King, 1904) C'est posséder les biens que savoir s'en passer. To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them. (Hector, the valet, reading Seneca to his master, Valére) act 4, sc. 13 — Hector (tr. King, 1904) Qu’un joueur est heureux! sa poche est un trésor! Sous ses heureuses mains le cuivre devient or. How happy is a gambler! his pocket is a treasure! under his lucky hands brass becomes gold. act 4, sc. 13 — Hector (tr. Ramage, 1880) Les Folies Amoureuses (1704) thumb|upright=1.15|One loves without reason, and without reason one hates. On aime sans raison et sans raison l'on hait. One loves without reason, and without reason one hates. act 2, sc. 2 — Agathe to Albert (tr. King, 1904) Cf. Catullus, Carmina, no. 85 Hippocrate dit oui, mais Galien dit non. Hippocrate says Yes, but Galienus says No. (Erastus's valet, Crispin, posing for the nonce as a man of science, undertakes to explain the cause of Agatha's pretended madness) act 3, sc. 7 — Crispin (tr. King, 1904) External links C. T. Ramage (ed.) Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors, 3rd ed. (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1880), p. 275 W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (London: J. Whitaker & Sons, Ltd., 1904), nos. 89, 299, 917, 1860 T. B. Harbottle and P. H. Dalbiac (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian, 2nd ed. (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1904), pp. 2, 7, 15, 79, 80, 87, 109, 128, 139, 167, 184, 205, 210, 216 Category:1655 births Category:1709 deaths Category:Playwrights from France Category:People from Paris