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Quotes by Dramatist

"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
Hell,

"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."

"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."

"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."

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

"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."

"Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."

"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."

"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."

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

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."

"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."

"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."

"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."


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

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."

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

"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."

"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."

"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
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