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Quotes by Dramatist
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"What's talent but the ability to get away with something?"
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"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."
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"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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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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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
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"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"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."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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