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Quotes by Dramatist
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats."
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
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"My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-simply a confession of failures."
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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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"Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir."
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"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
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"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessA d my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
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"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
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"The key to education is the experience of beauty."
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"Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig."
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
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"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people."
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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first."
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"Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?"
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"Loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin."
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"Men know life too early women know life too late."
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"For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses."
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"In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
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"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
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"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
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"But hear thee, Gratiano:Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice - Parts that become thee happily enough,And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,But where thou art not known, why, there they show Something too liberal."
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