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Quotes by Dramatist
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
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"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
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"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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"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."
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"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
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"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."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
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