Quotes by Playwrights - Page 131

Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.
Anton Chekhov
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.
Stefan Zweig
The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
George Sterling
No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'Neill
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
Mehmet Murat ildan
WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. Bosie is what became of me. He is spoiled, vindictive, utterly selfish and not very talented, but these are merely the facts. The truth is he was Hyacinth when Apollo loved him, he is ivory and gold, from his red rose-leaf lips comes music that fills me with joy, he is the only one who understands me. 'Even as a teething child throbs with ferment, so does the soul of him who gazes upon the boy's beauty; he can neither sleep at night nor keep still by day,' and a lot more besides, but before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself. Then we saw what we had made — the piece of ice in the fist you cannot hold or let go. (He weeps.)
Tom Stoppard
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing like race, is there?
Oscar Wilde
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde
Make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes
Okay. I’m not a white male. At least, not predominantly so. And as I mentioned before, I’m in an environment right now where race is really important. See, Chinese men are not that physically intimidating. We’re not that tall. We’re not that built. We have exactly one thing going for us in a fight — that our opponent recognizes that there’s a possibility, no matter how remote, that we might know kung-fu.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Oscar Wilde
You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.
Irvine Welsh
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
William Shakespeare
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
Dennis Potter
You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.
Thulani Davis
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Joseph Kesselring
The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold,When all is toldWe cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lancesAdvances towards its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon, my friend,We shall have no time for dances.The sky was good for flyingDefying the church bellsAnd every evil ironSiren and what it tells:The earth compels,We are dying, Egypt, dyingAnd not expecting pardon,Hardened in heart anew,But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you,And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.
Louis MacNeice
Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she looked at me something passed her to me. But I knew it was over: if she looked at me now the look would stay in her eyes, it wouldn't reach me. I was alone
Jean-Paul Sartre
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
Robert Ardrey
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Arthur Miller
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enormous belly turned upward, bleeding, inflated—bloated with all its dead paws, this belly floating in this car, in this grey sky, is not a seat. It could just as well be a dead donkey tossed about in the water, floating with the current, belly in the air in a great grey river, a river of floods; and I could be sitting on the donkey's belly, my feet dangling in the clear water.
Jean-Paul Sartre
He whom the gods love dies young.
Menander
Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.
Eric Gamalinda
We can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment that they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It’s the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it’s a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They’re digging deep and projecting out at the same time. […] The idea is that the psychology of people is going to live right inside those moments when their grammar falls apart and, like being in a shipwreck, they are on their own to make it all work out.
Anne Deavere Smith
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.
Carson McCullers
The world changes and we change with it.
Jack Thorne
Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
William Shakespeare
He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!
Sidney Howard
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.
Ami McKay
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
Alfred de Musset
Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?""Every one of them," Yossarian told him."Every one of whom?""Every one of whom do you think?""I haven't any idea.""Then how do you know they aren't?""Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. tClevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.
Joseph Heller
Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.
Tomson Highway
What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!
Mikhail Bulgakov
When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde