Phi Monologue from The Learned Women

From The Learned Women by Molière

female · defiant · 1:03 min

That may be; but this stupidity wounds me, and it is not my intention to suffer such a stain on my family. The beauty of the face is a fragile ornament, a passing flower, a moment's brightness which only belongs to the epidermis; whereas that of the mind is lasting and solid. I have therefore been feeling about for the means of giving you the beauty which time cannot remove--of creating in you the love of knowledge, of insinuating solid learning into you; and the way I have at last determined upon is to unite you to a man full of genius; ((showing.) TRISSOTIN) to this gentleman, in fact. It is he whom I intend you to marry. (HEN: Me, mother!) Yes, you! just play the fool a little.

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