Quotes by Playwrights - Page 2

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Maxim Gorky

Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.

Shellen Lubin

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

Oscar Wilde

The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

Joseph Addison

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

Oscar Wilde

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by.

Françoise Sagan

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Miguel de Unamuno

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Algernon Swinburne

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

Eoin Colfer

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china, the dining-room was stripped of parquet, the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its hinges, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become. ("The Destructors")

Graham Greene

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

William Shakespeare

Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.

Georg Büchner

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Oscar Wilde

Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve... Hell sent someone.-Along For The Ride-

Thomas Amo

Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be t

William Shakespeare

No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!

William Shakespeare

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

Lillian Hellman

JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.ALGERNON.We have.JACK.I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON.The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.JACK.What fools!

Oscar Wilde

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon, we will mend:And, as I am an honest Puck,If we have unearned luckNow to 'scape the serpent's tongue,We will make amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends.

William Shakespeare

Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

George Bernard Shaw

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

T.S Eliot

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

Sophocles

May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!

Mehmet Murat ildan

But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—His glassy essence—like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal.

William Shakespeare

Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.

Herman Wouk

Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Oscar Wilde

Everyone's got a different story.

Emma Donoghue

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

J.M. Barrie

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Jeff Lindsay

And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.

Thornton Wilder

...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish...Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

Robert Harling

Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

W Somerset Maugham

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Sinclair Lewis

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

J.M. Barrie

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Henrik Ibsen

LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.

T.S Eliot

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

William Shakespeare

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Euripides

A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...

A.A. Milne

Travellers ne'er did lie,Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio

William Shakespeare

Heaven for climate hell for company.

James M. Barrie

blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)

Barbara Blatner

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