William Wycherley Quotes

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

William Wycherley

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• Chastity
• Temperance

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• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
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• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
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• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
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• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Think
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• Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Hero
  • Romantic
  • Monster

• I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

  

  Quintilian

• In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • World
  • Violence

• Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Night
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• But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

  

  Albert Claude
  • Knowledge

• I got an early education from television.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Education

• I hated stand-up.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Up

• I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

  

  Jimmy Piersall
  • Great

• I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.

  

  David Cohen
  • Past
  • Moving

• Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

  

  Charles Best
  • School

• We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fashion

• My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Nerd
  • Overweight
  • Real Self

• Arthur Wellesley had waited six years for this moment. He was twenty-nine years old and had begun to fear that he would never see battle, but now, at last, he would discover whether he and his regiment could fight, and so he filled his lungs to give the order that would start the slaughter.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Fear

• Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • She
  • Parents
  • Boy

• Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

  

  Kathryn Hulme
  • Poverty
  • Difficult
  • Grace

• Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Nurse
  • Chastity
  • Temperance