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Quotes by Dramatist
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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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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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
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"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat."
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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"A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights."
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"HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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