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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
60
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
60
"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
60
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
59
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
59
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
59
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
59
"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
59
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
59
"And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe."
59
"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
59
"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
59
"Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done."
59
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
59
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
59
"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
59
"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
59
"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
59
"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
59
"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public..."
59
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
59
"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
58
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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