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Quotes by Dramatist
"Freedom can occur only through education."
60
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
60
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
58
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
58
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
56
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
54
"High hopes were once formed of democracy, but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
53
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
50
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
49
"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
48
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
Past,
48
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
47
"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
47
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
46
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
46
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
46
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
46
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
46
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
45
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
45
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
45
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
45
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
45
"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
43
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
Ugly,
43
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
42
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