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Quotes by Dramatist

"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."

"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."

"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"

"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."

"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."

"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."

"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."


"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

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

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"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."

"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."
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