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Quotes by Dramatist
"Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?Scorn and derision never come in tears:Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears.How can these things in me seem scorn to you,Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?"
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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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"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."
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"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
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"Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius."
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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
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"What fire does not destroy, it hardens."
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"O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world."
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"By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
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"Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? - why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections - an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places - which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place."
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"I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
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"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them."
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
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"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
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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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"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
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