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Quotes by Dramatist
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself."
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"Well, I must do't. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turn'd, Which quier'd with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv'd an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness."
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"Only one who loves can remember so well."
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."
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"You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished..."
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"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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"Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?"
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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
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"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
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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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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
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"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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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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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
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"When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all."
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