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Quotes by Dramatist

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."

"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."

"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."

"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."

"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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