Quotes by Playwrights - Page 16

People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Jean Webster

Harold believed his journey was truly beginning. He had thought it started the moment he decided to walk to Berwick, but he saw now that he had been naïve. Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcame them, and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

Rachel Joyce

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

Graham Greene

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

Knut Hamsun

Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it — than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch.

Johann Schiller

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.

Christopher Marlowe

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

Tom Stoppard

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

Christopher Marlowe

He had a face like a benediction.

Miguel de Cervantes

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

Yukio Mishima

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

Mehmet Murat ildan

But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair.

Oscar Wilde

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Israel Zangwill

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

Aphra Behn

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves.

William Shakespeare

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the experiences, the queer previsions, the fleeting premonitions, that are real. Vague and insubstantial though they may appear to be, compared with anything else in the mists and shifting lights of Time theory, they loom up like mountains of iron ore.

J.B. Priestley

When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Oscar Wilde

The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don’t be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

See, I’m a great believer in the power of negative thought. And in an age of affirmation, of self-help and self-love, of the rebirth of wide-eyed idealism and the power of positive thinking — I’m happy to be a champion of skepticism and doubt. That night, I rediscovered my role, my reason, and my rage.

Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.

Robert Morley

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Oscar Wilde

For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something He can demand of any of us, leap.

Graham Greene

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Graham Greene

... reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days...

William Shakespeare

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

Christy Hall

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Work is more fun than fun.

Noël Coward

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Graham Greene

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

And then he went in the evening up to the nursery and told the boy how his mother was gone for a while to Elfland, to her father's palace (which may only be told of in song). And, unheeding any words of Orion then, he held on with the brief tale that he had come to tell, and told how Elfland was gone."But that cannot be," said Orion, "for I hear the horns of Elfland every day.""You can hear them?" Alveric said.And the boy replied, "I hear them blowing at evening.

Lord Dunsany

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Tennessee Williams

He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop in your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud and a tree outside your window. You have to see what you did not see before. And then you have to sleep.

Rachel Joyce

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The setting sunWith yellow radiance lighten'd all the vale;And as the warriors moved, each polish'd helm,Corslet or spear, glanced back his gilded beams.The hill they climbed, and halting at its top,Of more than mortal size, towering, they seem'dA host angelic, clad in burning arms.

John Home

An old man is twice a child.

William Shakespeare

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

Mikhail Bulgakov

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Jean Genet

The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

Anton Chekhov

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Of my friends I am the only one I have left.

Terence

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn’t mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.

Sheila Heti

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