Quotes by Playwrights - Page 143

Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Benevolence is often very peremptory.
W Somerset Maugham
Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Thomas Keneally
Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.
J. C. F. von Schiller
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W Somerset Maugham
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
William Shakespeare
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another
Alan Bennett
Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything significant without believing in himself and no one ever will! Believe in yourself powerfully, especially when there is no reason left to believe in yourself because the ultimate bottom is the best place to start a big rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
W Somerset Maugham
EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.
Bertolt Brecht
CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead.THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured female! Upon wherein did thine affections tarry when I didst but lie here and rot for many a year? Nay, but those fellows tooketh care to remove the wetness that didst plagueth me of late and hath laid me upon the cool ground to revel in a state of dryness. Nay, I wouldst not delay them in their noble course for all thine base and bestial howling.CREONTA: Then, you, dearest donkey, precious beast of burden, tear those two apart and eat their flesh!DONKEY: Nay, but alas for many a season didst you but keep the food of the tummy from me and my mouth when it was that I required it of you. These fine gentlemen of fortune didst but give me carrots of which to partake which I did most verily and forthsoothe with merriment. I havest decided that thou dost suck most verily and no longer will I layth the smackth down in thine name but will rather let such gentlemen as these go free of themselves. TRUFFALDINO: [To the audience.] Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!
Hillary DePiano
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.
Edna Ferber
I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy," he said. "That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.
Kate Scelsa
Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.
John Davidson
If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight....
Anton Chekhov
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.
Jean Webster
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Oscar Wilde
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
Tennessee Williams
To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Friedrich von Schiller
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
A.A. Milne
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
John Guare
The soul of this man is his clothes.
William Shakespeare
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
William Shakespeare
Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh."Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he."Why, what's the matter?""Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.""Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose."Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
A.A. Milne
Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!
Mikhail Bulgakov
Strange how potent cheap music is.
Noël Coward
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
Graham Greene
Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
To learn to love, one must first learn to see.
Maurice Maeterlinck
He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
Robert Greene
That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.
Seamus Heaney
Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.
William Shakespeare
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
Paul Rudnick
Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
Anton Chekhov
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthy
A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the intellectual plane, it was clear that his desire was, by this prolonged tickling, to bring me to an orgasm of the mind.
Robertson Davies
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.
William Shakespeare