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George Bernard Shaw: Let a short...

George Bernard Shaw: Let a short...

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any...

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George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

Source: Maxims for...

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George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long...

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George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,...

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Christopher Fry: I travel light;...

Christopher Fry: I travel light;...

I travel light; as light,
That is, as a man can travel who will
Still carry his body around because
Of its...

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Christopher Fry: Poetry is the...

Christopher Fry: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. . . says heaven and earth in one word. . . speaks of...

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William Shakespeare: In Nature's infinite...

William Shakespeare: In Nature's infinite...

In Nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.


Source: Antony and...

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William Shakespeare: He hath eaten...

William Shakespeare: He hath eaten...

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Source: Henry IV, Pt II, II. i. (82).
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William Shakespeare: I have touched...

William Shakespeare: I have touched...

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my...

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William Shakespeare: To gild refin?d...

William Shakespeare: To gild refin?d...

To gild refin?d gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another...

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William Shakespeare: These earthly godfathers...

William Shakespeare: These earthly godfathers...

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their...

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William Shakespeare: Oh! how bitter...

William Shakespeare: Oh! how bitter...

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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William Shakespeare: Too swift arrives...

William Shakespeare: Too swift arrives...

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Source: Romeo and Juliet, II. vi....

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Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Thornton Wilder: Where there is...

Thornton Wilder: Where there is...

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

Source: In Great Business...

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Oscar Wilde: To be good,...

Oscar Wilde: To be good,...

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount...

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Brendan Behan: I'm a Communist...

Brendan Behan: I'm a Communist...

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Source:...

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Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

If you haven't got it,
you can't show it.
If you have got it,
you can't hide it.


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George Bernard Shaw: Beauty is all...

George Bernard Shaw: Beauty is all...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three...

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Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...

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