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Quotes by Dramatist
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
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"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd-His glassy essence-like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal."
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell,
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"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
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