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Quotes by Dramatist
"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
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"I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old."
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"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
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"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."
Will,
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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old,
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
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"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
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"In every pleasure, cruelty has its place..."
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"There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!"
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
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