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Quotes by Dramatist
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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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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"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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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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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
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"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
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"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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