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Quotes by Dramatist
"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
Past,
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
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"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"High hopes were once formed of democracy, but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write "whore upon?"
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
God,
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
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