Quotes by Playwrights - Page 11

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.

Thornton Wilder

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S Eliot

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

America — rather, the United States — seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warmhearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures. Its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The schnuckle among the nations of the world.

Edna Ferber

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!

Mehmet Murat ildan

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

T.S Eliot

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Thomas Keneally

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Henrik Ibsen

We number nothing that we spend for you;Our duty is so rich, so infinite,That we may do it still without accompt.Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,That we, like savages, may worship it.

William Shakespeare

A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Morality is not respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

George Bernard Shaw

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bertolt Brecht

Indeed, it may most verily be saidThat only death and taxes certain are.

Ian Doescher

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

Chris Grabenstein

Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

William Shakespeare

They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

Dodie Smith

The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die

William Shakespeare

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.

Goh Poh Seng

- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

Ian Doescher

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Mehmet Murat ildan

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

William Shakespeare

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

William Shakespeare

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

Oscar Wilde

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

George S. Kaufman

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

Juhani Peltonen

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Oscar Wilde

She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Ugo Betti

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Mehmet Murat ildan

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Michael Frayn

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Tennessee Williams

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare

Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Johann von Goethe

Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here.

Cormac McCarthy

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

Molière

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

John Dryden

Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?

Anton Chekhov

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following.

William Shakespeare

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Cormac McCarthy

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

William Shakespeare

To be moved confuses the soul. One cannot convey these kinds of memories any more than the events of a dream......if I have complained too long, it is because my memory, no longer having any fixed abode, has to carry its luggage with it.

Jean Cocteau

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