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Brendan Behan: I wish I'd...

Brendan Behan: I wish I'd...

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Source: The Hostage, II.
-- Brendan Behan, (Feb...

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Brendan Behan: The most important...

Brendan Behan: The most important...

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love...

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George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by...

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George Bernard Shaw: Lack of money...

George Bernard Shaw: Lack of money...

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Source: Man and Superman, 'Maxims for...

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George Bernard Shaw: It isn't mere...

George Bernard Shaw: It isn't mere...

It isn't mere convention. Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are...

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George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

Love is a gross exaggeration of the differences between one person and everybody else.

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William Shakespeare: A rarer spirit...

William Shakespeare: A rarer spirit...

A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us...

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William Shakespeare: I am as...

William Shakespeare: I am as...

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Source: Henry IV, Pt II, I. ii....

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William Shakespeare: How oft the...

William Shakespeare: How oft the...

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!


Source: King...

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William Shakespeare: O! that a...

William Shakespeare: O! that a...

O! that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Give me an...

William Shakespeare: Give me an...

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

Source: King...

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William Shakespeare: When we are...

William Shakespeare: When we are...

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: A man may...

William Shakespeare: A man may...

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple...

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William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for...

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William Shakespeare: I am a...

William Shakespeare: I am a...

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Source: Measure for Measure, IV. iii....

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William Shakespeare: By heaven, he...

William Shakespeare: By heaven, he...

By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be...

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Aeschylus: What is there...

Aeschylus: What is there...

What is there more kindly than the feelings between host and guest?

Source: 'The...

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Aeschylus: Who, except the...

Aeschylus: Who, except the...

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a...

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Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...

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