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Quotes by Dramatist
"With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."
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"It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them."
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"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
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"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it."
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"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."
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"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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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
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"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."
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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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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
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"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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"A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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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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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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