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Quotes by Dramatist
"Uncertainty is the normal state."
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"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death."
31
"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
31
"Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security."
31
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
30
"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."
30
"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."
30
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
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"Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary."
30
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
30
"A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security."
30
"You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do."
30
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
30
"Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me-I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you."
30
"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."
30
"I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
30
"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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