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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
W. S. Gilbert
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W. S. Gilbert
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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do
W. S. Gilbert
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
W. S. Gilbert
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
W. S. Gilbert
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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
W. S. Gilbert
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
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In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
W. S. Gilbert
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
W. S. Gilbert
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
W. S. Gilbert
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
W. S. Gilbert
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
W. S. Gilbert
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter
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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
George Chapman
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An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Thomas Southerne
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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
Menander
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Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
Luigi Pirandello
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Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman
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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas William Jerrold
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
Eugene Ionesco
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
Brian Friel
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