Perish the Universe, provided I have my revenge.
Cyrano De Bergerac
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EDGAR RAMIREZ I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as ...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-
I need to fight whole armies alone;
I have ten hearts; I...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two,...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-I need to fight whole armies alone;I have ten hearts; I have a hu...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good ro...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reco...
SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agen...
SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all...
AESCHYLUS Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.
EDMUND ROSTAND The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES M. BARRIE What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, ch...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES M. BARRIE You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The crown of literature is poetry.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering f...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
JAMES M. BARRIE A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are ...
JAMES M. BARRIE Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
JAMES M. BARRIE A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying,...
ATHOL FUGARD I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
JAMES M. BARRIE Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mo...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of c...
DARIO FO Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, ...
HOWARD BARKER Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then...
EMMA DONOGHUE I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We&...
MARTIN MCDONAGH Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
JOHN WEBSTER Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and ...
ROBERT GREENE All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEAN O'CASEY I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed...
RICHARD FOREMAN The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
EDWARD BOND We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill i...
ERNST TOLLER With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
LOPE DE VEGA Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
KEN HILL I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It s...
ATHOL FUGARD Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw a...
RICHARD FOREMAN I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
EDWARD BOND It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
SEAN O'CASEY But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own...
PETER SHAFFER Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right...
PETER SHAFFER There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound ...
EMMA DONOGHUE A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spo...
PETER SHAFFER We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beau...
HOWARD BARKER God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down de...
JAMES M. BARRIE Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere ...
JAMES M. BARRIE My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain...
GRAHAM GREENE Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets o...
ERNST TOLLER With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you c...
MARTIN MCDONAGH People don't have fun making music all the time.
KEN HILL I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
EMMA DONOGHUE The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to ...
GRAHAM GREENE Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
JAMES M. BARRIE One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people l...
EMMA DONOGHUE Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
DARIO FO When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
JOHN WEBSTER There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the mos...
MARTIN MCDONAGH If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
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DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
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DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and
magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters.
[Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
[Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
[Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit
down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
[Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
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INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
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IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
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REBECCA DE MORNAY I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
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