Quotes by Playwrights - Page 100

A silent street always welcome a good music!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw
Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
William Shakespeare
Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.
Philip Ridley
Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.
Rachel Joyce
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
Oscar Wilde
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
William Shakespeare
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
Richard Hovey
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
Graham Greene
Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
William Shakespeare
Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.
Sarah Schulman
Every new star that is found in the sky will lend of its rays to the passions, and thoughts, and the courage, of man. Whatever of beauty we see in all that surrounds us, within us already is beautiful; whatever we find in ourselves that is great and adorable, that do we find too in others.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.
John Day
Educated men are so impressive!
William Shakespeare
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
Luigi Pirandello
If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail.
Miguel de Unamuno
A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beyond the YearsI the years the answer lies,Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears.Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to rise And doff its fears,And carping Sorrow pines and dies— Beyond the years.IIBeyond the years the prayer for restShall beat no more within the breast; The darkness clears,And Morn perched on the mountain's crest Her form uprears—The day that is to come is best, Beyond the years.IIIBeyond the years the soul shall findThat endless peace for which it pined, For light appears,And to the eyes that still were blind With blood and tears,Their sight shall come all unconfined Beyond the years.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.
Tony Kushner
If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
Mae West
If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
Give my regards to Broadway,Remember me to Herald Square,Tell all the gang at 42nd Street,That I will soon be there;Whisper of how I'm yearningTo mingle with the old time throng,Give my regards to old Broadway,And say that I'll be there e'er long.
George M. Cohan
If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here, the mother country is satisfied to keep some feudal rulers in her pay; there, dividing and ruling she has created a native bourgeoisie, sham from beginning to end; elsewhere she has played a double game: the colony is planted with settlers and exploited at the same time. Thus Europe has multiplied divisions and opposing groups, has fashioned classes and sometimes even racial prejudices, and has endeavoured by every means to bring about and intensify the stratification of colonised societies. Fanon hides nothing: in order to fight against us the former colony must fight against itself: or, rather, the two struggles form part of a whole.
Jean-Paul Sarte
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
Bertolt Brecht
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.
T.S Eliot
If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.
Brendan Behan
A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
William Shakespeare
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it can be done then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
Cormac McCarthy
And once more given to inaction,Empty in spirit and alone,He settled down – to the distractionOf making other minds his own;Collecting books, he stacked a shelfful,Read, read, not even one was helpful:Here, there was dullness, there pretence;This one lacked conscience, that one sense;All were by different shackles fettered;And, past times having lost their hold,The new still raved about the old.Like women, books he now deserted,And mourning taffeta he drewAcross the bookshelf’s dusty crew.
Alexander Pushkin
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
Oscar Wilde
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
Mikhail Bulgakov
Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds! We shall see them building ships, and fighting sea-fights like Artemisia; nay if they want to mount and ride as cavalry, we had best cashier the knights, for indeed women excel in riding, and have a fine, firm seat for the gallop. Just think of all those squadrons of Amazons Micon has painted for us engaged in hand-to-hand combat with men.
Aristophanes
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar Wilde
Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
Aristophanes
I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?
Diane Samuels
The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams
J.M. Barrie
The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!
Mehmet Murat ildan