"Kashyapa: And accept this blessing— For countless ages may the god of gods, Lord of the atmosphere, by copious showers Secure abundant harvests to thy subjects; And thou by frequent offerings preserve The Thunderer's friendship. Thus, by interchange Of kindly actions may you both confer Unnumbered benefits on earth and heaven."

"King: Holy father, I will strive, as far as I am able, to attain this happiness."

"Kashyapa: What other favour can I bestow on thee, my son?"

"King: What other can I desire? If, however, you permit me to form another wish, I would humbly beg that the saying of the sage Bharata be fulfilled: May kings reign only for their subjects' weal; May the divine Saraswatí, the source Of speech, and goddess of dramatic art, Be ever honoured by the great and wise; And may the purple self-existent god, Whose vital Energy pervades all space, From future transmigrations save my soul."

"Yes, but you do not know -- you will not understand -- that life is penetrated through and through by our feeling, imagination and will. In the end, the whole universe must respond to every real effort we make. We each live a fairy tale created by ourselves."

"Kay: Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, Allan, it's us. Every step we've taken—every tick of the clock—making everything worse. If this is all life is, what's the use? Better to die, like Carol, before you find it out, before Time gets to work on you. I've felt it before, Allan, but never as I've done tonight. There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time."

"Kay: I'll try to understand . . . so long as you really believe—and think it's possible for me to believe—that Time's not ticking our lives away . . . wrecking . . . and ruining everything . . . for ever . . . Alan: No, it's all right, Kay. I'll get you that book. You know, I believe that half our trouble now is because we think Time's ticking our lives away. That's why we snatch and grab and hurt each other. Kay: As if we were all in a panic on a sinking ship. Alan: Yes, it's like that. Kay: But you don't do those things—bless you! Alan: I think it's easier not to—if you take a long view. Kay: As if we're—immortal beings? Alan: Yes, and in for a tremendous adventure."

"Nay, what tickled me was him saying he must ha' come at wrong year. now that's as good as aught I've heard o' some time. If he's going around asking for people -- not friends of his, mind you -- and he doesn't know where they are nor what year they'll be here -- I reckon he's got his work cut out."

"A lot of use it is you or anybody else saying what they'd do if they had their time over again. A fat chance they have, haven't they? Time moves on and it takes you with it, whatever you say -- as I know only too well."

"But now I see that we do not understand ourselves, the nature of our lives. What seems to happen continually just outside the edge of our attention -- the little fears and fancies, as you call them -- may be all-important because they belong to a profounder reality, like the vague sounds of the city outside that we hear sometimes inside a theatre."

"Ormund: But being rich isn't simply the opposite of being poor. It's not really worth much -- being rich. Half the time there's a thick glass between you and most of the fun and friendliness of the world. There's something devilishly dull about most of the rich. Too much money seems to take the taste and colour out of things. It oughtn't to do, but it does -- damn it! Dr. Görtler: But power -- you have that, haven't you? Ormund: Yes, and that's a very different thing. Dr. Görtler: Ah! -- you like power. Ormund: Well, you get some fun out of it. I don't mean bullying a lot of poor devils. but putting ideas into action. And not being at the end of somebody else's bit of string."

"I suppose -- in the last resort -- you trust life -- or you don't. Well -- I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake."

"But time is not single and universal. It is only the name we give to higher dimensions of things. In our present state of consciousness, we cannot experience dimensions spatially, but only successively. That we call time. but there are more times than one."

"Some people, steadily developing, will exhaust the possibilities of their circles of time and will finally swing out of them into new existences. Others -- the criminals, madmen, suicides -- live their lives in ever darkening circles of their time. Fatality begins to haunt them. more and more of their lives are passed in the shadow of death."

"I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life."

"Vindice: Duke, royal lecher, go, gray-hair'd adultery; And thou his son, as impious steep'd as he; And thou his bastard, true-begot in evil; And thou his duchess that will do with [the] devil: Four ex'lent characters."

"Hippolito: Last evening predecessor unto this, The duke's son warily enquir'd for me, Whose pleasure I attended: he began By policy to open and unhusk me About the time and common rumour; But I had so much wit to keep my thoughts Up in their built houses, yet afforded him An idle satisfaction without danger. But the whole aim and scope of his intent Ended in this: conjuring me in private To seek some strange-digested fellow forth Of ill-contented nature, either disgrac'd In former times, or by new grooms displac'd Since his stepmother's nuptials, such a blood A man that were for evil only good; To give you the true word, some base-coin'd pander."

"Vindici: We must coin. Women are apt, you know, to take false money, But I dare stake my soul for these two creatures, Only excuse excepted that they'll swallow Because their sex is easy in belief."

"Ambitioso: Brother, this makes for thee; Fear not, we'll have a trick to set thee free. Junior: Brother, I will expect it from you both, And in that hope I rest."

"Vindice: What think you now, lady? Speak, are you wiser? What said advancement to you? Thus it said: The daughter's fall lifts up the mother's head. Did it not, madam? But I'll swear it does In many places; tut, this age fears no man: "'Tis no shame to be bad, because 'tis common.""

"Lussurioso: I much applaud thy judgment; thou art well-read in a fellow, And 'tis the deepest art to study man. I know this, which I never learnt in schools: The world's divided into knaves and fools."

"Duke: It well becomes that judge to nod at crimes That does commit greater himself and lives. I may forgive a disobedient error That expect pardon for adultery, And in my old days am a youth in lust: Many a beauty have I turn'd to poison In the denial, covetous of all. Age hot is like a monster to be seen: My hairs are white, and yet my sins are green."

"Supervacuo: Brother, let my opinion sway you once, I speak it for the best, to have him die Surest and soonest; if the signet come Unto the judges' hands, why, then his doom Will be deferr'd till sittings and court-days, Juries and further. Faiths are bought and sold; Oaths in these days are but the skin of gold."

"[Spurio and the Duchess kiss] Spurio: Had not that kiss a taste of sin, 'twere sweet. Duchess: Why, there's no pleasure sweet but it is sinful. Spurio: True, such a bitter sweetness fate hath given; Best side to us is the worst side to heaven. Duchess: Push, come: 'tis the old duke thy doubtful father; The thought of him rubs heaven in thy way, But I protest by yonder waxen fire, Forget him or I'll poison him. Spurio: Madam, you urge a thought which ne'er had life. So deadly do I loathe him for my birth, That if he took me hasp'd within his bed, I would add murther to adultery, And with my sword give up his years to death."

"Vindici: Here might a scornful and ambitious woman Look through and through herself; see, ladies, with false forms You deceive men but cannot deceive worms."

"Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens."

"The Duchess: Diamonds are of most value They say, that have pass'd through most jewellers hands Ferdinand: Whores, by that rule, are precious."

"Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."

"It seems she was born first: You have bloodily approv'd the ancient truth, That kindred commonly do worse agree Than remote strangers."

"She and I were twins; And should I die this instant, I had liv'd Her time to a minute."

"Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young."

"A Spanish fig for the imputation"

"We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied Which way please them."

"I will make that young man my special charge. Hand your responsibility over to me and I shall not be found wanting. I shall be with h in every present danger.. the darkest moments, you can be assured."

"Then it depends on which way you read them."

"Its a free exchange of skills... of produce or hand or brain. That's what's needed . Not money."

"One for all and one for each. (in a letter to May)"

"I couldn't love a man who'd stayed at home."

"Now there's conscription coming, if women take their jobs they'll have to go."

"Sam is definitely not a babe."

"I shouldn't have killed him."

"Dreaming is not making your own decisions but letting others make them for you."

"Christ said suffer the children. Suffer them!"

"We have failed to build Jerusalem and this is God’s answer."

"God has called me to the lists and if I fall let my death help cleanse the world of its weakness."

"They're stuck! Stuck! that's why every things cock-eyed. Stuck in their own little worlds. They can't see further than what they know. Mentally stuck. It's got so they think they'll go under for stepping beyond their own back yard."

"If you look at Leonardo da Vinci's drawings... the tip of the middle finger reaches further down the thigh bone."

"We exchanged our skills. No money was involved"

"That’s the great thing about the army. You don’t need money… It’s free exchange."