Quotes by Playwrights - Page 32

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation

William Shakespeare

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Oscar Wilde

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

Christopher Marlowe

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!

William Shakespeare

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Yukio Mishima

If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if you go walking around the streets without trousers, no matter how new your shoes and how elegant your coat, it’s enough to raise a big hue and cry. Enlightened society is a kind of trouser society.

Kōbō Abe

In my mind's eye

William Shakespeare

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

Larry Kramer

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Françoise Sagan

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Blest who was youthful in his youth;blest who matured at the right time;who gradually the chill of lifewith years was able to withstand;who never was addicted to strange dreams;who did not shun the fashionable rabble;who was at twenty fop or blade,and then at thirty, profitably married;who rid himself at fiftyof private and of other debts;who fame, money, and rankin due course calmly gained;about whom lifelong one kept saying:N. N. is an excellent man.But it is sad to think that to no purposeyouth was given us,that we betrayed it every hour,that it duped us;that our best wishes,that our fresh dreamings,in quick succession have decayedlike leaves in putrid autumn.It is unbearable to see before oneonly of dinners a long series,to look on life as on a rite,and in the wake of the decorous crowdto go, not sharing with iteither general views, or passions.

Alexander Pushkin

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Alan Bennett

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Oscar Wilde

The ripest fruit first falls.

William Shakespeare

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T.S Eliot

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence.

Anton Chekhov

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

George Bernard Shaw

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

Sir Walter Scott

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

Mehmet Murat ildan

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

David Mamet

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence.

Juhani Peltonen

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Lillian Hellman

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

T.S Eliot

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

William Shakespeare

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure and every betrayal which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Graham Greene

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Samuel Beckett

Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Aeschylus

Audacity has made kings.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

Emma Donoghue

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Eve Ensler

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.

Cormac McCarthy

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T.S Eliot

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

Ben Elton

I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.

Beverley Nichols

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

W Somerset Maugham

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

Cormac McCarthy

New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one.

Graham Greene

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

John Osborne

The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.

Betty Smith

It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

Dennis Potter

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

Karel Čapek

Happiness hates the timid!

Eugene O'Neill

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Miguel de Cervantes

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

[Artemis] returned to the aft bay for Mulch's version of a briefing. The dwarf had drawn a crude diagram on a backlit wall panel. In fairness, there were more artistic chimpanzees. And less pungent ones. Mulch was using a carrot as a pointer, or more accurately, several carrots. Dwarfs liked carrots. 'This is Koboi Labs,' He mumbled around a mouthful of vegetable. 'That?' exclaimed Root. 'I realize, Julius, that it is not an accurate schematic.'The Commander exploded from his chair. 'An accurate schematic? It's a rectangle for heaven's sake!'Mulch was unperturbed. 'That's not important. This is the important bit.' 'That wobbly line?' 'It's a fissure,' pouted the dwarf. 'Anybody can see that.''Anybody in kindergarten maybe. So it's a fissure, so what?''This is the clever bit. Y'see that fissure is not usually there.'Root began strangling the air again. Something he was doing more and more lately.

Eoin Colfer

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