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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9567 Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moli&egravere 1622-1673 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:9567
AUTHOR:Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622–1673)
QUOTATION:Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
 
Note 1.
Sigismund I, at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty’s grammar, “Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam” (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar). [back]