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The most famous quotes from Griboyedov's Woe from Wit

The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Happy people don't watch the clock. · I'd gladly serve, but being servile makes me sick. · My carriage, my carriage!. (Updated May 18, 2021.)

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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    Happy people don't watch the clock.

    Sofia, Act I, scene 3.

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    I'd gladly serve, but being servile makes me sick.

    Chatsky, Act II, scene 2.

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    My carriage, my carriage!

    Chatsky, Act IV, scene 14.

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    And who are the judges?

    Chatsky, Act II, scene 5.

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    Ah! Evil tongues are worse than pistols.

    Molchalin, Act II, scene 11.

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    Blessed is he who believes – the world is warm for him!

    Chatsky, Act I, scene 7.

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    Where is it better? – Where we are not.

    Sofia and Chatsky, Act I, scene 7.

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    Spare us, worse than any sorrow, / both the master's anger and the master's love.

    Liza, Act I, scene 2.

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    Ranks are given by people, / and people can be fooled.

    Chatsky, Act III, scene 3.

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    Don't read like a sexton – / read with feeling, sense and proper pauses.

    Famusov, Act II, scene 1.

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    Well! All familiar faces!

    Famusov, Act IV, scene 14.

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    To the country, to your aunt, to the back of beyond, to Saratov!

    Famusov, Act IV, scene 14.

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    Learning is the plague, scholarship is the cause.

    Famusov, Act III, scene 21.

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    What a task, O Lord, / to be the father of a grown-up daughter!

    Famusov, Act I, scene 10.

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