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Famous quotes by Dramatists
"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"
Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist
"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
"All cats are grey in the dark"
Thomas Lodge, Dramatist
"The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine"
George S. Kaufman, Dramatist
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Women are made to be loved, not understood"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"It is always the unreadable that occurs"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Biography lends to death a new terror"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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