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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
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"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt"
John Heywood, Dramatist
John Heywood
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"Many hands make light work"
John Heywood, Dramatist
John Heywood
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"When all candles be out, all cats be grey"
John Heywood, Dramatist
John Heywood
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"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life"
Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist
Eugene O'Neill
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"This principle is old, but true as fate, kings may love treason, but the traitor hate"
Thomas Dekker, Dramatist
Thomas Dekker
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"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, smiles awake you when you rise"
Thomas Dekker, Dramatist
Thomas Dekker
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"A mask of gold hides all deformities"
Thomas Dekker, Dramatist
Thomas Dekker
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"It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"A man with a soul is not like every other man"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"I've always been suspicious of collective truths"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"I dream, therefore I exist"
August Strindberg, Dramatist
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented is the only pleasing Solitude"
Richard Steele, Dramatist
Richard Steele
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"And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind"
Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman, by the conventions of society, are born with different interests and different points of view"
August Strindberg, Dramatist
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"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable"
Richard Steele, Dramatist
Richard Steele
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a gossip"
Richard Steele, Dramatist
Richard Steele
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"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"Those who know the least obey the best"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"Money is the sinews of love, as of war"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren"
Henry Taylor, Dramatist
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous"
Dennis Potter, Dramatist
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"There is no sinner like a young saint"
Aphra Behn, Dramatist
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret"
Aphra Behn, Dramatist
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