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Quotes by Dramatist
"Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
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"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers."
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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now."
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"How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance."
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"HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge..."
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"I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works."
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
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"Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world."
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"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for."
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"Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."
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"Try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances."
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"And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
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"In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it."
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"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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"My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease;Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,The uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,Desire his death, which physic did except.Past cure I am, now reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,At random from the truth vainly express'd;For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."
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