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Quotes by Dramatist
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
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"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
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"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
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"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."
Will,
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them."
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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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