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“Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a simple thing:…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

“Tradition can not justify such misery.   Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?”

— Claire McClennan

“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions and hoops…

— Christopher Hawke

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

— Erin Morgenstern

The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that…

— Robert Benchley

“All the world's a circus. Sometimes you choose your act and sometimes it's assigned to you.”

— Mia Sheridan

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the…

— Tippi Hedren

“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the…

— E.E. Cummings

Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that…

— Anonymous

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

— Clarence Clemons