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Quotes by Dramatist
"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
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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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"To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?"
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"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."
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"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby,
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"My story being done,She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:She swore,""in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange;'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'dThat heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her,I should but teach him how to tell my story.And that would woo her."
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"Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father's lifeNow wears his crown."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance."
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
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"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
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