Quotes by Playwrights - Page 108

Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.
Oscar Wilde
For she had eyes and chose me.
William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
Tennessee Williams
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
He kisses my tears, and I laugh. This is a moment. I want to remember this moment. Every detail, every sense. It's one of those moments in life that makes everything else worth it. One of those moments that feels like an eternity of bliss in one tiny bite of time. It's one of those moments that falls from some heavenly plane to remind you that life can be wonderful.
Kara Lee Corthron
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker
Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.""I've got to paint," he repeated."Supposing you're never anything more than third-rate, do you think it will have been worth while to give up everything? After all, in any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good; you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist.""You blasted fool," he said."I don't see why, unless it's folly to say the obvious.""I tell you I've got to paint. I can't help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesn't matter how he swims, well or badly: he's got to get out or else he'll drown.
W Somerset Maugham
The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.
Lorraine Hansberry
Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
William Shakespeare
Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.
Euripides
I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.
Thomas Middleton
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
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare
If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The City is free of sinThe snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that fallsOh no, the city is in a nightgown
Pierre Albert-Birot
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
Samuel Beckett
You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
The philosophy of the rain is very simple: No obstacle is obstacle when you are strongly determined!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who live never forget those who died!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than ever thou loved’st Cassius.
William Shakespeare
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
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
William Shakespeare
You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.
Eugene O'Neill
In the distant future, I don’t want to be remembered; I want to remember!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
Margaret Edson
I am someone who has always run from difficulty, and it dawns on me that I don't have to go on that way. We write ourselves certain parts and then keep playing them as if we have no choice. But a tardy person can become a punctual one, if she chooses. You don't have to keep being the thing you have become. It is never too late.
Rachel Joyce
We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
Thornton Wilder
A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Herman Wouk
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Oscar Wilde
As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.
Earl Lovelace
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you.
Oscar Wilde
A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.
Oscar Wilde
12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand StrategyGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?
William Shakespeare
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
Arthur Miller
But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")
Tennessee Williams
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
Isaac Babel
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
All Nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Seamus Heaney
Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare
No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would begin: always the same play, Sarah making love, Sarah with X, doing the same things that we had done together, Sarah kissing in her own particular way, arching herself in the act of sex and uttering that cry like pain, Sarah in abandonment. I would take pills at night to make me sleep quickly, but I never found any pills that would keep me asleep till daylight.
Graham Greene
In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.
Dodie Smith
If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.
Nelson Rodrigues
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.
Christy Hall
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller