"Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner."

-- Nina Berberova

#Jewels Quotes #Dying Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
“Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”

Source : The Mikado act 2 (1885)
“I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.”
“Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?”
“Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.”
“The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.”
“Every man has two countries: his own and France.”
“I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”

Source : Willy Russell (2016). “Willy Russell Plays: 2: Blood Brothers; Our Day Out - The Musical; Shirley Valentine; John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing

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