Clemence Dane Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It's the things I might have said that fester.”
-- Clemence Dane

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“Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.”
-- Clemence Dane

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“Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.”
-- Clemence Dane

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“It's the things one might have said that fester.”
-- Clemence Dane

Source : "A Bill of Divorcement: A Play".

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“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”

“I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.”

“The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.”

“Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.”

“But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59

“The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.”

“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

“The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.”

“You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?”

“Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.”