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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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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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"To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection.Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive."
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"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest."
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"All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to."
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"He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
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"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
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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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"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell."
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
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