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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do

Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.

Don't come all the way across town. There's a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I'll meet you there, all right?

For the past two days I've been on the river with an Oxford don who quotes Herodotus, a lovesick young man who quotes Tennyson, a bulldog, and a cat," I said. "I played it by ear.

Which room is breakfast in?" I asked Baine. "The breakfast room, sir," he said.

I assumed that Dawson was his valet. Then again, it might be his pet raccoon.

No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip." Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

He sounded time-lagged, but probably wasn't. All of Lady Schrapnell's new recruits sound time-lagged.

These are small things; I am coming to things of greater importance, but which seem smaller, because they are more common.' — Bernanrd of of Clairvaux

All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

A calamity can be erased by no amount of good. It can only be erased by a worse calamity.