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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
Eugene Ionesco
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One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
Georges Courteline
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As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
Pierre Corneille
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
Lady Gregory
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God ever works with those who work with will.
Aeschylus
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The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.
Epicharmus of Kos
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
William Saroyan
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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
James Shirley
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner
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One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
Samuel Foote
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol
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Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
Menander
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The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
Henry Taylor
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Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
John Webster
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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
W. S. Gilbert
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Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.
James Sheridan Knowles
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Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
Aeschylus
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Love is two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
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