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Quotes by Dramatist
"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."
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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
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"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."
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"And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
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"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
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"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"Sometime [Queen Mab] driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,Of healths five fathom deep; and then anonDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or twoAnd sleeps again."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself."
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"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not. The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then would make you woe."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
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"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
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