# The most famous quotes from Griboyedov's Woe from Wit

Griboyedov's comedy turned almost entirely into proverbs: Famusov, Chatsky, Sofia, Molchalin and Liza – the best-known lines with act and scene.

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- May 18, 2021 · Юлия
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## Top 14

1. **Happy people don't watch the clock.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sofia, Act I, scene 3.
2. **I'd gladly serve, but being servile makes me sick.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chatsky, Act II, scene 2.
3. **My carriage, my carriage!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chatsky, Act IV, scene 14.
4. **And who are the judges?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chatsky, Act II, scene 5.
5. **Ah! Evil tongues are worse than pistols.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Molchalin, Act II, scene 11.
6. **Blessed is he who believes – the world is warm for him!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chatsky, Act I, scene 7.
7. **Where is it better? – Where we are not.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sofia and Chatsky, Act I, scene 7.
8. **Spare us, worse than any sorrow, / both the master's anger and the master's love.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Liza, Act I, scene 2.
9. **Ranks are given by people, / and people can be fooled.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chatsky, Act III, scene 3.
10. **Don't read like a sexton – / read with feeling, sense and proper pauses.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Famusov, Act II, scene 1.
11. **Well! All familiar faces!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Famusov, Act IV, scene 14.
12. **To the country, to your aunt, to the back of beyond, to Saratov!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Famusov, Act IV, scene 14.
13. **Learning is the plague, scholarship is the cause.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Famusov, Act III, scene 21.
14. **What a task, O Lord, / to be the father of a grown-up daughter!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Famusov, Act I, scene 10.

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