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Quotes by Playwright
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
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"The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill."
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"The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post."
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"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
11
"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."
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"There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."
11
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
11
"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."
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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
10
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
10
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
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