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Quotes by Dramatist
"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom."
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"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
31
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
30
"In every pleasure, cruelty has its place..."
30
"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
30
"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
30
"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
30
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."
30
"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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"To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
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"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
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"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin."
Want,
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"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
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"When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human."
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"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."
30
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
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"For this new-married man approaching here,Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'dYour well defended honour, you must pardonFor Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--Being criminal, in double violationOf sacred chastity and of promise-breachThereon dependent, for your brother's life,--The very mercy of the law cries outMost audible, even from his proper tongue,'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE."
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"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."
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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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"Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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