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

"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."

'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.'

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

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

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

"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.'

"Next Case."

Joe bids dolly good-bye

'Heath. . . Cliff!!!'

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

"... 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."

Intimidating the witness

"Is there someone else?"

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

"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

'So you came all the way from Aberdeen to say you've found someone else and you're over me?!' 'Yes! I wanted to see the pain and sense of loss in your eyes.'