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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Freedom can occur only through education"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Great souls suffer in silence"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"The history of the world is the world's court of justice"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Tennessee Williams
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes, you'll know you're dead"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Tennessee Williams
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"A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
Tom Stoppard
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"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
Jules Renard
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"Nothing succeeds like success"
Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist
Alexandre Dumas
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"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman"
Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist
Alexandre Dumas
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea"
Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist
Douglas William Jerrold
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass"
Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist
Douglas William Jerrold
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"I'm all in favour of free expression, provided it's kept rigidly under control"
Alan Bennett, Dramatist
Alan Bennett
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