Quotes by Playwrights - Page 12

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Athol Fugard

Woman is in love with the devil.

Nikolai Gogol

A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. Maybe we repeat because when we do, we recognize the behavior and the familiarity is comforting. So the self is just the consolation of our tendencies.

Richard Greenberg

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!

Mehmet Murat ildan

So a while back I spent a night in jail. Now, as for exactly what landed me there, I’d be so delighted to never have to go into any of the details regarding that. Besides, other people’s theories are so much more exotic and exciting than the reality. I've heard everything from 'attempted terrorism' to 'indecent public condescension.

Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way

Eve Ensler

You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

Thomas Bernhard

The aim of life is self-development

Oscar Wilde

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

Buy a Bible!Your guide to eternal life!

Jerome Lawrence

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings.

John Dryden

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Robert Greene

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

Elias Canetti

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S Eliot

Deliver me from my disciples!

Oscar Wilde

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing.""Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing.""Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom.""Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

J.M. Barrie

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Oscar Wilde

I am because my little dog knows me.

Gertrude Stein

And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.

William Shakespeare

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

Sophocles

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

William Shakespeare

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.

Cormac McCarthy

Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified.

William Shakespeare

If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Cormac McCarthy

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it’s arranged the other way...

George Bernard Shaw

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Alice Childress

How much living have you done?From it the patterns that you weaveAre imaged:Your own life is your totem pole,Your yard of cloth,Your living.How much loving have you done?How full and free your giving?For living is but lovingAnd loving only giving.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!

William Shakespeare

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

Jeff Lindsay

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

Alan Jay Lerner

If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I am happy to see you, Maso

Damon Galgut

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Inge

Faith is hidden household capital.

Johann von Goethe

In the future, you will always encounter the past!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Ben Elton

The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

Samuel Beckett

The moon in her chariot of pearl

Oscar Wilde

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.

William Shakespeare

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Aristophanes

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to me to underlie our apparently ordinary lives. Certainly that cast of mind had some of its origin in our pit, which had much the character of a Protestant Hell. I was probably the most entranced listener to a sermon the Reverend Andrew Bowyer preached about Gehenna, the hateful valley outside the walls of Jerusalem, where outcasts lived, and where their flickering fires, seen from the city walls, may have given rise to the idea of a hell of perpetual burning. He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason then why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since.

Robertson Davies

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