Quotes by Playwrights - Page 39

Jean Anouilh

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

Arthur Miller

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Oscar Wilde

Open your mind before your mouth

Aristophanes

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, "I'm proud of you, man." (In a gesture of self-restraint, Lin had stuck to the performance calendar they had announced before learning that President Obama was coming, the one that said Javier Muñoz would play Hamilton that afternoon.)

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.

William Shakespeare

What's done, is done

William Shakespeare

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

T.S Eliot

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

Betty Smith

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair And the brow that's all furrowed and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers so toil-worn for me Oh God bless you and keep you Mother Machree.

Rida Johnson Young

Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Thomas Otway

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Who are you?" he asked.I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

Eoin Colfer

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!

Anton Chekhov

And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessness, its grotesque want of meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all harmony! He was amazed at the discord between the shallow optimism of the day, and the real facts of existence. He was still very young.

Oscar Wilde

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Yukio Mishima

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Tennessee Williams

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

Emma Donoghue

Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.

Kiran Nagarkar

He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human being, in some cases a higher one, in others a lower. He secretly admired the weak, pale, little girl and had picked her to be his wife. That was still the only way he could think of a woman - as a wife. He danced in a very chaste and proper manner, but he heard awful stories about his pals, stories he didn't understand until later. They could dance the waltz backwards around the room in a very indecent way, and they told naughty stories about the girls.

August Strindberg

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

Anton Chekhov

My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

Nikolai Gogol

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Oscar Wilde

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!

Maurice Maeterlinck

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Eoin Colfer

Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.

Zoe Kazan

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow

William Shakespeare

What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?""No, Julius. It's the end of the circus.""I see. And these are the clowns?"Foaly's head poked through the doorway."Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?

Eoin Colfer

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Gertrude Stein

Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth.

Jules Verne

The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled 'Women of Liberty.' All of the speakers were women, and all of the topics boiled down to 'Effectively Communicating Libertarian Ideas to Women' — in other words, 'How to talk to girls.' Looking around at the nearly entirely white male audience, it wasn’t hard to see why they chose this tack.

Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

Nikolai Gogol

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

David Mamet

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

John Dryden

There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.

Jean-Jacques Dalpe

Death was far more certain than God.

Graham Greene

HIPPOLYTABut all the story of the night told over,And all their minds transfigured so together,More witnesseth than fancy’s imagesAnd grows to something of great constancy,But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

William Shakespeare

I prithee send me back my heart,Since I cannot have thine;For if from yours you will not part,Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?Yet now I think on't, let it lie,To find it were in vain;For thou hast a thief in either eyeWould steal it back again.Why should two hearts in one breast lie,And yet not lodge together?O Love! where is thy sympathy,If thus our breasts thou sever?But love is such a mystery,I cannot find it out;For when I think I'm best resolved,I then am in most doubt.Then farewell care, and farewell woe;I will no longer pine;For I'll believe I have her heart,As much as she hath mine.

John Suckling

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

Tomson Highway

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

Jerome Lawrence

thus with a kiss I die

William Shakespeare

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