Romantic Dramatists Gifts

Victor Hugo looking at the stars

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

A man taking a bow

Henrik Ibsen,

"I'd like you to be the co-star in the melodrama that is life."

'Look Chaucer, there goes that rotten plagiarist Shakespeare again!'

Performance In The Bedroom

"Looks like a storm ahead, Captain." "I think you're being over dramatic."

"When I first saw your mother, she was bathed in moonlight."

"Did someone just shout 'sinkhole!!!'?"

'That's it! No more cameras in the courtroom!'

Overruled

Shakespeare's housework

'Last seen running away from St. Paul's Church...'

'How about a romantic caper about two lost souls who meet and find happiness investing in mutual funds.'

"You never finish your screenplay, but you do achieve fuller, thicker hair."

"I just wanted you to hear it from me first, before you read it in the sky."

'I think it's only fair to warn you that I am sometimes subject to mood swings, you INSENSITIVE JERK!!!'

'Don't even think about it...I saw him first.'

'I smell romance! This is his seventh blanket-bath. He only came in for an 'in-growing toe-nail' removal operation, yesterday!'

"I'll consider your proposal, but first I need a second opinion from your ex-wife."

'Some day, son, all of this will be your ex-wife's.'

'Not another tough crossword puzzle.'

Joe bids dolly good-bye

"... Have you passed?... Well, just let me move these five traffic violation tickets that you picked up, out of the way and I'll check your score."

Polly had Eunice so angry that she was tempted to break the fourth wall...

"Next Case."

'Heath. . . Cliff!!!'

Intimidating the witness

"C'mon. She's clearly just a rebound girl."

"Is there someone else?"

"I'm neither a good cop nor a bad cop, Jerome. Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or not, depending on circumstances."

'I thought we were going to play doctor?' 'We are playing doctor. I'm a lawyer and I'm suing you for malpractice.'

Smoke break in Heaven

"Do you think your big lottery win's going to change your life at all, dear?"