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Quotes by Dramatist
"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
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"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."
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"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
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"For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us."
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"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
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"Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination."
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"Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque."
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"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
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"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."
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"Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes."
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Soul,
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"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
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"Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known."
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"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
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"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
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"I drink to the general joy o' the whole table." Macbeth."
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
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"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
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"A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"Ugh!' snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, 'this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Government look to it?"
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams."
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