The Middle Class Gentleman

“Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.”

Monsieur Jourdain spent forty years speaking prose without even knowing it. It makes me wonder what basic things I am doing right now that I cannot name.

“My tailor told me that people of quality wear them in the morning.”

Jourdain tries so hard to look noble in his ridiculous new clothes. He just looks like a target for every con artist in Paris.

“A man who does not know music is a man who knows nothing.”

The fencing master and the music teacher get into a physical fight over which art is better. It is funny how people need their specific hobby to be the most important thing.

“I have found a man who would be a gold mine for you.”

People around Jourdain keep feeding his ego just to get a meal or a loan. It is sad how quickly friends turn into leeches when someone wants to be famous.