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You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. — Eugene O'Neill

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. — Eugene O'Neill

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. — Eugene O'Neill

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men. — Eugene O'Neill

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't ... that should tell us something. — Eugene O'Neill

Irish as a Paddy's pig. — Eugene O'Neill

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. — Eugene O'Neill

But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers. — Eugene O'Neill

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle. — Eugene O'Neill

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural ... I have a right to love! — Eugene O'Neill

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. — Eugene O'Neill

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless. — Eugene O'Neill

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come. — Eugene O'Neill

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance. — Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. — Eugene O'Neill

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you
less'n he wants to lose it! — Eugene O'Neill

When men make gods, there is no God! — Eugene O'Neill

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time. — Eugene O'Neill

Writing is my vacation from living — Eugene O'Neill

The sea hates a coward. — Eugene O'Neill

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. — Eugene O'Neill

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember. — Eugene O'Neill

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it. — Eugene O'Neill

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped. — Eugene O'Neill

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors. — Eugene O'Neill

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing! — Eugene O'Neill

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia! — Eugene O'Neill

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. — Eugene O'Neill

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome. — Eugene O'Neill

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth ... — Eugene O'Neill

Critics? I love every bone in their heads. — Eugene O'Neill

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. — Eugene O'Neill

I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober. — Eugene O'Neill

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill

You're two of a kind, and a bad kind. — Eugene O'Neill

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. — Eugene O'Neill

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. — Eugene O'Neill

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers. — Eugene O'Neill

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! — Eugene O'Neill

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us. — Eugene O'Neill

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. — Eugene O'Neill

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! — Eugene O'Neill

HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself. — Eugene O'Neill

I will be an artist or nothing! — Eugene O'Neill

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes. — Eugene O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. — Eugene O'Neill

That's right! Run him down! Run down everybody! Everyone is a fake to you! — Eugene O'Neill

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. — Eugene O'Neill

Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners! — Eugene O'Neill

Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There's plenty o' fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don't be so damn pertic'lar! — Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. — Eugene O'Neill

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science. — Eugene O'Neill

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room. — Eugene O'Neill

Well, they say a good cry does you a lot of good. — Eugene O'Neill

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves. — Eugene O'Neill

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. — Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat. — Eugene O'Neill