Quotes by Playwrights - Page 36

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

George Bernard Shaw

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Dodie Smith

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

Hélène Cixous

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Robertson Davies

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.

William Shakespeare

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

Oscar Wilde

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

Sophocles

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

Philip Massinger

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage

J.M. Barrie

Watch out when the bad treats you well!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

Mehmet Murat ildan

All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.

J.M. Barrie

If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sir Walter Scott

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde

The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

W Somerset Maugham

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

W Somerset Maugham

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here.

Sophocles

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Mae West

Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

William Shakespeare

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

William Saroyan

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I’m reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, “I am protecting the rain forest.” But as his thought evolved, he realized, “I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.

Richard Nelson

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Arthur Adamov

Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.

Joseph Heller

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

Emma Donoghue

Well, I've got an idea," said Rabbit, "and here it is. We take Tigger for a long explore, somewhere where he's never been, and we lose him there, and next morning we find him again, and--mark my words--he'll be a different Tigger altogether." "Why?" said Pooh. "Because he'll be a Humble Tigger. Because he'll be a Sad Tigger, a Melancholy Tigger, a Small and Sorry Tigger, an Oh-Rabbit-I-am-glad-to-see-you Tigger. That's why." "Will he be glad to see me and Piglet, too?" "Of course." "That's good," said Pooh. "I should hate him to go on being Sad," said Piglet doubtfully. "Tiggers never go on being Sad," explained Rabbit.

A.A. Milne

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Graham Greene

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry

SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.

Jack Thorne

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

God isn't here. God doesn't even know about this place

Johan Harstad

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Euripides

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

Johann von Goethe

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Oscar Wilde

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.

Sophocles

I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle ... or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I have held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no gallant last words ... only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question, "Why?"I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Dale Wasserman

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Cormac McCarthy

Listen, children:Your father is dead.From his old coatsI'll make you little jackets;I'll make you little trousersFrom his old pants.There'll be in his pocketsThings he used to put there,Keys and penniesCovered with tobacco;Dan shall have the penniesTo save in his bank;Anne shall have the keysTo make a pretty noise with.Life must go on,Though good men die;Anne, eat your breakfast;Dan, take your medicine;Life must go on;I forget just why.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Mae West

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

Langston Hughes

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Cormac McCarthy

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

A.A. Milne

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Cormac McCarthy

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away.

Samuel Beckett

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

Oscar Wilde

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable regret. And that's why I tell you that Byring is right. Even though it only lasts five years, even though he ruins his career, even though this marriage ends in disaster, it will have been worth while. He will have been satisfied. He will have fulfilled himself.

W Somerset Maugham

...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely--surely He will lend an ear!

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Timon: I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.

William Shakespeare

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