"So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love."

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Source : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11

Colley Cibber

#Life Quotes #Love Life Quotes #Dames Quotes

“If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.”
“Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.”
“Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.”
“I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.”
“On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.”
“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”
“I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.”
“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.83, Random House

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