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Quotes by Dramatist
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
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"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
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"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."
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"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
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"I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes."
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"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."
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"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Soul,
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"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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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
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