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Quotes by Dramatist
"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
70
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
70
"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
70
"To you, whoever you are, when I am gone - remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me."
70
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
70
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
69
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
69
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
69
"I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all."
69
"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
69
"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
69
"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
69
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
69
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
69
"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady."
69
"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
68
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
68
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
68
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
68
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
68
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
68
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
68
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
68
"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
68
"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."
67
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
67
"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
67
"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
67
"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
67
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