Quotes by Playwrights - Page 10

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

Hillary DePiano

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

Daphne du Maurier

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Emma Donoghue

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

Euripides

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Graham Greene

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

Tennessee Williams

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.

Dodie Smith

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Molière

Power consists in making oneself the goal of another person's social instincts, without seeking to satisfy one's own social instincts through him. The other then does everything one asks. Powerlessness consists in wanting or having to satisfy one's social instincts through another person whose social instincts one has not succeeded in concentrating on oneself - one then does everything the other asks.

Esther Vilar

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.

Mary Chase

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

We have relinquished and abandoned and left behind and forgotten what we believed we had to relinquish, abandon and leave behind and ultimately forget; we have let ourselves go and we have gone away and we have gone under, but we have relinquished nothing and abandoned nothing and left behind nothing and forgotten nothing; we have in reality extinguished nothing whatsoever, because our parents did not inform us of or enlighten us about the fact that our life-process is in reality nothing but a process of illness. We were up above, in the company of our parents, locked up in our walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us was nothing but lethal and we are down below, without our parents, again locked up in these walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us is nothing but lethal.

Thomas Bernhard

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum

Patrick Marber

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lost my life in the textile mill of Nefidov—my master presented one prima donna with a golden wash basin. Every one of her toilet articles was gold. That basin holds my life-blood, my very life. That's for what my life went! A man killed me with work in order to comfort his mistress with my blood. He bought her a gold wash basin with my blood.

Maxim Gorky

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Gertrude Stein

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

Henrik Ibsen

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

Cormac McCarthy

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

Jeff Lindsay

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

Tennessee Williams

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The present is elastic to embrace infinity.

Louis Anspacher

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Gaston Arman De Caillavet

And then again, maybe it was some weird noise in my brother’s head, some little digital murmur he never told anyone about. I’ve heard about that – how you wake up one day and there’s like this permanent dial tone droning somewhere behind the meat in your head, a little Dustbuster trapped where the brain saves you from going crazy. After a while you wind up ending it all just to make things quiet again.

Adam Rapp

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how to raise awareness so that other people didn’t have to suffer the same, and how to understand, and then challenge, offenders who so love what they do to children that they can and must shut their minds to the feelings of children who have put their trust in them. P4

Beatrix Campbell

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Mikhail Bulgakov

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

Thornton Wilder

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Jules Verne

I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Oscar Wilde

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle."That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed."It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Joseph Heller

While there is tea, there is hope.")

Arthur Wing Pinero

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.

Herman Wouk

It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.

Graham Greene

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S Eliot

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

A.A. Milne

Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love

William Shakespeare

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W Somerset Maugham

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. If we always had smiled on the one who is gone, there would be no despair in our grief; and some sweetness would cling to our tears, reminiscent of virtues and happiness. For our recollections of veritable love—which indeed is the act of virtue containing all others—call from our eyes the same sweet, tender tears as those most beautiful hours wherein memory was born.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met, or am likely to; And, if you go...Well, God knows why I suppose. Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!

Robert Bolt

There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.

Victor Lodato

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.

W Somerset Maugham

Well, I must do’t. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot’s spirit! My throat of war be turn’d, Which quier’d with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys’ tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar’s tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm’d knees, Who bow’d but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv’d an alms! I will not do’t, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body’s action teach my mind A most inherent baseness.

William Shakespeare

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

Mehmet Murat ildan

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

Cormac McCarthy

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

J.M. Barrie

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!

Mehmet Murat ildan

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

William Shakespeare

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Oscar Wilde

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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