Quotes by Playwrights - Page 29

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann von Goethe

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

Jules Verne

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist.What follows on from that is even worse: that since humans live that way, thinking that first they thing and then they exist, they also think that anything that doesn't think, also doesn't fully exist. Trees, the sea, the fish in the sea, the sun, the moon, a hill or a whole mountain range. None of that exists all the way; it exists on a second plane of existence, a lesser existence. Therefore, it deserves to be merchandise or food or background for humans and nothing more.

Sabina Berman

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

Eoin Colfer

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Euripides

Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Eugene O'Neill

If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

Thomas Otway

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

T.S Eliot

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.

Rachel Joyce

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

Hillary DePiano

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

Tom Stoppard

Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

Henning Mankell

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

REBECCA:If you sit long enough, maybe everything becomes clear. Maybe you can make sense of all the losses and find one thing you can hold on to. I'm sitting here thinking of everything that has passed, everyone that is gone, and hoping I can find her, my mother. Not because she is my first choice, but because she is my last choice and... my world has gone to shit.

Marie Clements

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of those who have gone before, I mean those who have struggled and surmounted, I mean those who have aspired, I mean Rembrandt, I mean Turner, I mean Michelangelo and Matisse … I mean obviously Rothko.

John Logan

Estragon: They're too bigVladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day

Samuel Beckett

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Tom Stoppard

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Rachel Joyce

Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

Honoré de Balzac

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

William Shakespeare

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." BlancheSomethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate

Neil Simon

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

Susan Hill

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Dodie Smith

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Oscar Wilde

Such Polly are your sex - part truth part fiction Some thought much whim and all contradiction.

Richard Savage

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.

Friedrich von Schiller

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Joseph Addison

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Samuel Beckett

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.

George Bernard Shaw

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

Mehmet Murat ildan

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

Oscar Wilde

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

T.S Eliot

Universe is a paradise of beautiful hidden doors.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt...and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up! Do you understand that? Because of you, the entire universe is ruined...forever!"--Kari, The Pavilion

Craig Wright

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Samuel Beckett

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Plautus

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

Written words can also sing.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

Seán O'Casey

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

Isaac Babel

I am dying Egypt dying.

William Shakespeare

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

Langston Hughes

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

William Shakespeare

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