“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”
— Jane Austen, book Persuasion
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