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Quotes by Dramatist
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
67
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
67
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
66
"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
66
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
66
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
66
"Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done."
66
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
65
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
65
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell,
65
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
65
"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."
65
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
65
"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
65
"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."
65
"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
64
"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
64
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
64
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
64
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
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