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Quotes by Dramatist
"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
38
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
38
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
38
"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
38
"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
38
"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
38
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
38
"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
38
"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
38
"What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that; move still, still so,And own no other function: each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens."
38
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
38
"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."
37
"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
37
"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
37
"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
37
"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
37
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
37
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
37
"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
37
"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
37
"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living."
37
"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
37
"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
37
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