Quotes 501 till 511 of 511.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1. -
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery - even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness - is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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Laughter - An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Laughter: An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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