Quotes by Playwrights - Page 33

Poetry is a mug's game.

T.S Eliot

The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we would dive for pearls. My lover’s wordswere shooting stars which fell to earth as kisseson these lips; my body now a softer rhymeto his, now echo, assonance; his toucha verb dancing in the centre of a noun.Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the beda page beneath his writer’s hands. Romanceand drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -I hold him in the casket of my widow’s headas he held me upon that next best bed.

Carol Ann Duffy

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett

When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

Carson McCullers

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Josephine Tey

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

We made love, and then she threw up.

Sarah Kane

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Howard Zinn

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W Somerset Maugham

The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")

Catherine Crowe

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

William Shakespeare

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were brave enough to free-fall.

Rachel Joyce

Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What day is it?"It's today," squeaked Piglet.My favorite day," said Pooh.

A.A. Milne

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

Mehmet Murat ildan

An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.

Diane Samuels

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Miguel de Cervantes

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.

Terence

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eugene O'Neill

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Channing Pollock

Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.''- 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.

Eugene O'Neill

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Molière

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

William Shakespeare

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

Honoré de Balzac

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Graham Greene

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Eoin Colfer

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Eoin Colfer

Much rain wears the marble.

William Shakespeare

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

Miguel de Cervantes

* If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a most foul and insidious poison. Yesterday Anna barely managed to revive me with camphor injections and today I am half dead.

Mikhail Bulgakov

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Paul Zindel

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.

Maxim Gorky

He who sings scares away his woes.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.

Dawn Powell

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching. Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.Harper: That's how people change.

Tony Kushner

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Michel Tremblay

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It was a strange decision for a timid and unadventurous young woman, but then she was in a strange state of mind and she dreaded the return home. That evening all sorts of unsettling fancies had burst open in her mind.("Swaddling Clothes")

Yukio Mishima

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Oscar Wilde

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

Racine

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Aphra Behn

But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers.

Samuel Beckett

Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

Tom Stoppard

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.

Karel Čapek

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