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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Most hard-boiled people are half-baked"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
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"A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool, usually has his suspicions"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Love that is not madness is not love"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"It's not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"What feeds me destroys me"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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