"As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree."

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“Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.”

“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.”

“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?”

“A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.”

“It is difficult to live up to one's posters…When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”

“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”

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"It is much easier to prejudge than to judge. It saves a lot of work to write about all the intellectual baggage one brings to the work. It is harder, even somewhat daunting, to start from scratch with…"

— Donald Vroon

Music1942

#knowledge

"But to return to the Newtonian Philosophy: Tho' its Truth is supported by Mathematicks, yet its Physical Discoveries may be communicated without. The great Mr. Locke was the first who became a Newtoni…"

— John Theophilus Desaguliers

Philosophy1683–1744

#philosophy

"No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than declaration of war against Holland in 1672."

— Sir William Temple

Politics1628–1698

#justice

"And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music."

— Leonard Cohen

Literature1934–2016

#beauty