The Little Foxes
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First performed
1939, New York City
Literary form
Play
Genres
Drama
Writing language
English
Author's country
United States
Length
Three acts, approx. 21,500 words
Notable lines
First lines
You gone stark out of your head?
Passages
"There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.'
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
"You know what I've always said when people told me we were rich? I said I think you should either be a n***** or a millionaire."
There are hundreds of Hubbards sitting in rooms like this throughout the country. All their names aren't Hubbard, but they are all Hubbards and they will own this country some day. We'll get along.
Last lines
Well finally it has happened,
Imagines someone at another house,
Staring one more minute out his window
Before waking up his wife.
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