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Quotes by Dramatist

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."


"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."

"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."

"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."

"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."

"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."

"I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them."

"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."

"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."


"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."

"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."

"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."

"The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry."

"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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