Tartufe

• “And yet, if people had not since that time treated of the author of "Tartufe" to satiety, perhaps I would venture to maintain, notwithstanding some inferiority of style, that Bailly's discourse offered a neater, truer, and more philosophic appreciation of the principal pieces of that immortal poet.”

  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men

• “However that may be, there is a quality about his tragic verse which to one fresh from the sonorous majesty and dignified beauty of "Polyeucte," or even the fine gravity of "Tartufe," vibrates too lightly in the ear.”

  Voltaire

• “Jansenists of your time saw, each of them, in Tartufe the portrait of their rivals (as each of the laughable Marquises in your play conceived that you were girding at his neighbour), you all the while were mocking every credulous excess of Faith.”

  Letters to Dead Authors

• “Tartufe, the blasphemy of Don Juan — such wildness of irresponsible mirth, such humour, such wit!”

  Letters to Dead Authors

• “Moliere at the base of his statue of Tartufe have been molded by a hand more audacious than skilful.”

  Women in the Life of Balzac

• “Tartufe, who, though married, was seen everywhere, as much at home behind the scenes as in church.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “_ -- To Molière's _Le Tartufe_ (Act I.Sc. 2.) occur the following lines:”

  Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

• “_Tartufe_, _Cyrano de Bergerac_ -- have almost always been what are called”

  The Theory of the Theatre

• “Tartufe is so emphasised throughout the first two acts of the play that bears his name.”

  The Theory of the Theatre

• “The alleged Tartufe of the ghetto cannot be called a hypocrite.”

  The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)

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