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Quotes by Dramatist
"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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"Oh, Mercedes, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercedes, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercedes, I must have my revenge!"
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"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."
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"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
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"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."
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"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."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"
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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."
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"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
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