Dramatist Quotes

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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