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Quotes by Dramatist
"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."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public..."
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"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
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"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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