Quotes by Playwrights - Page 134

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
William Shakespeare
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume.
William Shakespeare
The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.
T.S Eliot
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
A.A. Milne
There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children
Howard Zinn
We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Eoin Colfer
A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Lin-Manuel Miranda
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
Zakes Mda
Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
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
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
John Dryden
Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
Sinclair Lewis
But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again.""Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten".There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet as well and looked at me, affectionately and very surprised. You took me by the shoulders. "What's good is not forgotten; I will not forget you," you said, and as you did so you gazed intently at me as if to memorise my image.
Stefan Zweig
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
T.S Eliot
The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.
Langston Hughes
The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength
Sophocles
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
Cormac McCarthy
My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.
Christy Hall
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
Arthur Miller
My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers.
Samuel Beckett
What virtue is it that is born with us?Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,Until some honorable deed be done.----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad I
Christopher Marlowe
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
Cormac McCarthy
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So many horrid Ghosts.
William Shakespeare
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
George Bernard Shaw
Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those swift to think are not always secure.
Sophocles
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom
William Saroyan
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
J.M. Barrie
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Eugene O'Neill
I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.
Christy Hall
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Anton Chekhov
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Oscar Wilde
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
Earl Lovelace
The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
Graham Greene
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe