Quote by Denis Diderot
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

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