The Gilded Sugar Inn Quotes

“Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One would fancy that she was looking for the dead things.”
― The Page of Herodias, Oscar Wilde’s play “Salomé: A Tragedy In One Act”
“She is like a woman who is dead. She moves very slowly.”
— The Page of Herodias, Oscar Wilde’s “Salomé
“O! I am Fortune's fool.”
— Romeo Montague, “Romeo and Juliet” Act 3 Scene 1 Line
“Certain planets, such as Mars and Venus, have rotation periods not very different from those of our own Earth.”
— Alexander Philip, “Time and Periodicity”
“Money is everywhere. For some it is everything. For all it is necessary.”
— Georg Simmel, “The Philosophy of Money”
“Astrology is like gravity. You don't have to believe in it for it to be working in your life.”
— Zolar
“Thou art the Mars of malcontents.”
— William Shakespeare
“Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.”
— Buzz Aldrin
“A planned life is a dead life.”
— Lauren Bacall
“Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.”
— Syrie James
“Overplanning kills magic.”
— Anonymous
“Everybody needs money. That's why it's called “money’.”
— Danny Devito, “Heist”
“The Mars we had found was just a big moon with a thin atmosphere and no life. There were no martians, no canals, no water, no plants, no surface characteristics that even faintly resembled Earth's.”
— Bruce Murray
“Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.”
— John Gray
“The planet Mars — crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms — has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”
— David Grinspoon
“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame,
These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame:
Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips
Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”
— Horace, “Epistles”
“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Our picture of the rich geological history of the Martian flood plains and highlands will be an incomplete one if we are unwilling to make the perilous trip to Mars and look at the Martian hills through our own eyes, instead of the eyes of a television camera.”
— Henry Joy McCracken
“For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
— Ethel Barrymore
“Know you why the robin's breast
Gleameth of a dusky red
Like the lustre mid the stars
Of the potent planet Mars?”
— Paul Hamilton Hayne
“Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home.”
— Leroy Bailey, Jr., "We Need God", Saturday, June 14th, 2007
“An actor should refine public taste.”
— Aristophanes
“There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means ‘blood blossom.’”
— Pierce Brown
“Actors are one family over the entire world.”
— Alfre Woodard
“In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.”
— Marina Abramovic
“There are too many stars and too few actors.”
— Bruce Lee
“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”
— Edwin Booth
“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.”
— Paul Ludwig
“You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication—because, of course, astrology is rubbish.”
— Quentin Crisp
“Astrology reveals the will of the gods.”
— Juvenal
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.”
— Voltaire
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.”
— Joel 2:28
“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”
— John Pierpont Morgan
“No city, however massively fortified, is impregnable to a mule carrying chests of gold coins.”
— K.J. Parker, “Devices and Desires”
“There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.”
— Edgar Watson Howe, “Country Town Sayings”
“Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.”
— Francis Bacon, “De Augmentis Scientiarum”
“The purse strings tie us to our kind.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Literary Studies”
“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
— “The Tempest”
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon, “Meditationes Sacrae”
“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Physics and Politics”
“You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.”
— Shylock, “The Merchant of Venice” Act 4 Scene 1
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
— Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”
— Francis Bacon, “Essays”
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Shakespeare the Man: An Essay”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.”
— “The Importance of Being Earnest”
“For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards.”
— A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
— Francis Bacon
“Action is a business of risk; the real question is the magnitude of that risk.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
— “Lady Windermere's Fan”
“Let every man be master of his time.”
— “Macbeth”
“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
— Francis Bacon
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Physics and Politics”
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
— Francis Bacon, “Essays”
“Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name.”
— “Venus and Adonis”
“A great painter of men must (as has been said) have a faculty of conversing, but he must also have a capacity for solitude. There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself.”
— Walter Bagehot, “Literary Studies”
“Men’s weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.”
— Francis Bacon, “The Advancement of Learning”
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
— “A Midsummer Night's Dream”
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
— Francis Bacon, “Essays”
“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”
— “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”
“Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”
— Francis Bacon, “The World”
“The loyalty, well held to fools, does make
Our faith mere folly.”
— “Antony and Cleopatra”
“A dreamer is the one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
— “The Critic as Artist”
“Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.”
— Francis Bacon, "Of Discourse" mentioned in “Essays”
“He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.”
— Oscar Wilde, “Men and Memories”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
— Francis Bacon
“As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded is her crimson mouth.”
— Oscar Wilde, “La Bella Donna della Mia Mente”
“How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.”
— Narraboth, “Salomé: A Tragedy In One Act” Act 1 Scene 1
“The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.”
— Robert Bolaño, “2666”
“When the clear, bright moon, climbs up full in view, the silvery forms of bygone ages hover up and soften the delight of contemplation.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, attributed, “Day's Collacon”
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favor.”
— Francis Bacon
“Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
What bargains may I make still to be sealing?”
— “Venus and Adonis”
“Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.”
— Robert Bolaño, “2666”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— “The Midsummer Night’s Dream”
“There is no evil angel but Love.”
— “Love’s Labour’s Lost” Act Scene 
“Nothing is ever behind us.”
— Robert Bolaño, “2666”
“O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow.”
— Thisbe, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”
— Juliet Capulet, “Romeo and Juliet”
“Action is eloquence.”
— “Coriolanus”
“Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?”
— “As You Like It”
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
— “Macbeth”
“What is the city but the people?”
— “Coriolanus”
“A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.”
— King Henry VIII
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— “The Historical Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!”
— “Richard II”
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”
— “Romeo and Juliet”
“Murder’s out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh.”
— “Othello”
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”
— “King Lear”
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
— “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.”
— “Richard III”
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
— Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"
“Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?...
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,
Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves,
And give them title, knee and approbation
With senators on the bench.”
— “Timon of Athens”
“There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moisten'd.”
— “King Lear”
“The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.”
— “The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra“
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
— Feste, “Twelfth Night” Act 1 Scene 2
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.”
— “Othello”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
— “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“Violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.”
— Friar Lawrence, “Romeo and Juliet” Act 2 Scene 6
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— “All's Well That Ends Well”
“'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.”
— “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”
“The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there's but one in all doth hold his place.”
— “Julius Caesar”
“O shame! Where is thy blush?”
— “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“I'll speak to thee in silence.”
— “Cymbeline”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
— “Sonnet XVIII”
“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.”
— “Othello”
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
— “Sonnet XCVIII”
“His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder.”
— Coriolanus
“We have seen better days.”
— “Timon of Athens”
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
— “Richard II”
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.”
— “Othello”
“But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous.”
— “Othello”
“Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.”
— “Coriolanus”
“Truth makes all things plain.”
— “A Midsummer Night's Dream”
“Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
— “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“Who can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you.”
— “Sonnet #84”
“Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
— “Romeo and Juliet”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
— “Antony and Cleopatra”
“There is a history in all men's lives.”
— “King Henry IV, Part II”
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
— “ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.”
— “King Henry VIII”
“Art thou base, common and popular?”
— “Henry V”
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
— “As You Like It”
“Give me that man
That is not passion's slave.”
— “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”
“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”
“These blessed candles of the night.”
— “The Merchant of Venice”
“This is the fairy-land; O spite of spites!
We talk with goblins, owls and sprites.”
— “The Comedy of Errors”
“My library was dukedom large enough.”
— “The Tempest”
“Double double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
— The Three Witches, “Macbeth”
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
— Roberto Bolaño
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Buddha
“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.”
— Cleopatra
“Reading is more important than writing.”
— Roberto Bolaño
“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
— Buddha
“A picture is a poem without words.”
— Horace
“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”
— Roberto Bolaño
“Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.”
— Francis Bacon, “Essays”
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