Quotes by Playwrights - Page 3

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open

T.S Eliot

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Dodie Smith

Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.

William Shakespeare

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Oscar Wilde

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

Eoin Colfer

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Oscar Wilde

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Eoin Colfer

Hard roads require will of steel!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

Sam Shepard

Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had contracted a venereal disease, and he hadn't even had a woman; only one thing had happened to him, it was rather curious when you came to think of it, and he didn't just then quite know what to do about it: the bottom had fallen out of his world.

W Somerset Maugham

I was standing alone with him when she burst impetuously through the door, tall and wearing a rain-cape on top of a queen's costume, a forgotten crown on her head.She directed some rapid words at him. He began to tremble all over and dropped my hand from under his arm. Vera seized me cruelly by the arm and led me off... She led me through murky, dusty expanses, between strange machinery and constructions, through valleys and mountains and past a precarious wood to her dressing-room. And she still held me cruelly by the arm. There she slammed the door shut, rudely chasing away some handsome women with the amorous eyes of worshipers.I do not recall her words. It was as though she were all aflame. She kissed my hands and I realized then that she had seen only me that evening, that she had performed for only me, that she loved me and that this was all such madness.("Thirty-Three Abominations")

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Our life is like some vast lake that is slowly filling with the stream of our years. As the waters creep surely upward the landmarks of the past are one by one submerged. But there shall always be memory to lift its head above the tide until the lake is overflowing.

Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?""What do you think?" he asked."Maybe because they've got no sense of grief?

Nuruddin Farah

The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief of grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every medicine is vain.

Aeschylus

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The curse of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)

Ian Doescher

Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Eugene O'Neill

I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voices to humpback whales, the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds, the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms, whirled in high mountain snows, whistled across the poles, and whispered through lush equatorial gardens…air that has passed continually through life on earth. I breathe it in, pass it on, share it in equal measure with billions of other living things, endlessly, infinitely.

Richard Nelson

Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each other; all the same species and think of all the excuses for war they've used! It hasn't had to be about space to live in, it's been about power, prestige, influence, fame, resources and I don't know what else!

Karel Čapek

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

Carson McCullers

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.

Anton Chekhov

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

Fay Weldon

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Howard Zinn

To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You are never too old to become younger!

Mae West

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Eoin Colfer

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Miguel de Cervantes

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

Mehmet Murat ildan

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

Oscar Wilde

certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Eoin Colfer

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Oscar Wilde

People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

Haddon Chambers

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Oscar Wilde

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

William Shakespeare

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Robertson Davies

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Oscar Wilde

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

John Oliver Hobbes

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Oscar Wilde

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

Paul Rudnick

Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only “frail.” They are not artistic: they are only lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

George Bernard Shaw

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