Quotes by Playwrights - Page 128

When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun.
William Shakespeare
He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,and I have followed the source of rivers towards theirsource or plunged into forests, always making for othercities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; andI could never turn back any more than a record can spinin reverse. And all that was leading me where ?To this very moment...
Jean-Paul Sartre
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
Time is a waste of money.
Oscar Wilde
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.
William Shakespeare
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Graham Greene
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!
Anton Chekhov
All writing is filth
Antonin Artaud
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"Catherine: "I cannot tell."Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.
William Shakespeare
Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
William Shakespeare
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
T.S Eliot
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
William Shakespeare
Change happens very slow and very sudden.
Dorothy Bryant
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S Eliot
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Eugene O'Neill
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.
Alan Bennett
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a most foul and insidious poison. Yesterday Anna barely managed to revive me with camphor injections and today I am half dead.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W Somerset Maugham
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -
Christopher Marlowe
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.
Carol Ann Duffy
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us revenge this withour pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know Ispeak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
William Shakespeare
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Seán O'Casey
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
William Shakespeare
I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.
Terence
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One would say You had not left me for a single instant. "Did you doubt it?
Gabrielle Bossis
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee:The wine of life is spilt upon the sand,My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lieIf this night before God's throne should stand.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from thy brow,No night but hath its morn.Have love! not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call,And scatter like the circling sun,Thy charities on all.
Friedrich Schiller
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.
Eoin Colfer
Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.
Dacia Maraini
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
Anton Chekhov
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W Somerset Maugham
And all at once the heavy nightFell from my eyes and I could see, --A drenched and dripping apple-tree,A last long line of silver rain,A sky grown clear and blue again.And as I looked a quickening gustOf wind blew up to me and thrustInto my face a miracleOf orchard-breath, and with the smell, --I know not how such things can be! --I breathed my soul back into me.Ah! Up then from the ground sprang IAnd hailed the earth with such a cryAs is not heard save from a manWho has been dead, and lives again.About the trees my arms I wound;Like one gone mad I hugged the ground;I raised my quivering arms on high;I laughed and laughed into the sky
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
Tennessee Williams
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T.S Eliot
My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.
Mehmet Murat ildan
What women are concerned in is developing their own individuality, and hence they refuse to call any man master, be he husband or spiritual guide. Personal freedom is more precious to them than the protection of the best men. The women they envy are not those who are simply wives and mothers, but those who by honest intelligent work have attained distinction in any line of effort, and whose creed has been self-reliance.
Neith Boyce