Quotes by Playwrights - Page 5

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T.S Eliot

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

John Dryden

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Cormac McCarthy

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Graham Greene

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

Christopher Marlowe

What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?

Sophocles

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

Maxim Gorky

Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, like a dish of cream;And you might now and then supplySome caviare, or Strassburg Pie,Some potted grouse, or salmon paste —He's sure to have his personal taste.(I know a Cat, who makes a habitOf eating nothing else but rabbit,And when he's finished, licks his pawsSo's not to waste the onion sauce.)A Cat's entitled to expectThese evidences of respect.And so in time you reach your aim,And finally call him by his name.

T.S Eliot

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees...

Oscar Wilde

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 bes

Carol Ann Duffy

Why be a man when you can be a success.

Bertolt Brecht

Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by.

William Shakespeare

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

W Somerset Maugham

Eva: I don't want any tea. Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

Diane Samuels

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

William Shakespeare

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;It is always the same, wherever one goes.And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people saythat they do not like fighting, will often displayEvery symptom of wanting to join in the fray.And theyBark bark bark bark bark barkUntil you can hear them all over the park.

T.S Eliot

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T.S Eliot

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

Kōbō Abe

The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

John Heywood

She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats.

Kathy Acker

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Plautus

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

J.M. Barrie

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Molière

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.

Maxim Gorky

Time is a waste of money.

Oscar Wilde

O, how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day,Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,And by and by a cloud takes all away!

William Shakespeare

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Ben Hecht

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Molière

But seriously Holden, what is the island called now?”“Sentosa,” Holden said romantically and with a flourish of his unoccupied left hand.“Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you’re talking about?

Robert Yeo

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...

J.M. Barrie

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Mae West

Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

Jules Verne

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

I'm single because I was born that way.

Mae West

A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality

Mehmet Murat ildan

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Oscar Wilde

Men are men they needs must err.

Euripides

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..

Diane Samuels

The good and wise lead quite lives

Euripides

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must endure, Alyosha." That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ugliness and dreariness of life, of the suffering of the people — of everything against which I protested so vehemently. I was not made for endurance, and if occasionally I exhibited this virtue of cattle, wood, and stone, I did so only to test myself, to try my strength and my stability. Sometimes young people, in the foolishness of immaturity, or in envy of the strength of their elders, strive, even successfully, to lift weights that overtax their bones and muscles; in their vanity they attempt to cross themselves with two-pood weights, like mature athletes. I too did this, in the literal and figurative sense, physically and spiritually, and only good fortune kept me from injuring myself fatally or crippling myself for life.For nothing cripples a person so dreadfully as endurance, as a humble submission to the forces of circumstance.

Maxim Gorky

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

Mehmet Murat ildan

He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.

Samuel Beckett

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

T.S Eliot

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

William Shakespeare

I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.

Daphne du Maurier

Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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