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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| 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] |
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