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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
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"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
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"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
Word,
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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
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"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
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"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love,
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
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"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
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