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Quotes by Dramatist
"When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
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"No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything."
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"He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!"
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
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"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"But men are men the best sometimes forget."
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"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."
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"Sometime [Queen Mab] driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,Of healths five fathom deep; and then anonDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or twoAnd sleeps again."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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