Quotes by Playwrights - Page 145

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!
Mehmet Murat ildan
God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God’s help!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
Oscar Wilde
You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
Sarah Schulman
Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me. Linnaeus fell on his knees and wept for joy when he saw for the first time the long heath of some English upland made yellow with the tawny aromatic brooms of the common furze; and I know that for me, to whom flowers are part of desire, there are tears waiting in the petals of some rose. It has always been so with me from my boyhood. There is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice of a flower, or the curve of a shell, to which, by some subtle sympathy with the very soul of things, my nature does not answer. Like Gautier, I have always been one of those ‘pour qui le monde visible existe.
Oscar Wilde
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
William Shakespeare
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!
Robertson Davies
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
Knut Hamsun
I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
Thomas Bernhard
Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life
Oscar Wilde
Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. Thus we finally gather in one large pen, where we stand and bleat about our loneliness without listening to each other and without realizing that we are smothering each other to death. The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
Ingmar Bergman
It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.
Oscar Wilde
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.
Graham Greene
Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
William Shakespeare
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.
Christopher Marlowe
Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.
William Shakespeare
You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.
Graham Greene
We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
Shirley Graham Du Bois
He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.
William Shakespeare
We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.
Nelson Rodrigues
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
Oscar Wilde
There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.
Patrick Hamilton
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
Jean Webster
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
W Somerset Maugham
My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
Tennessee Williams
There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?
Oscar Wilde
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
Cormac McCarthy
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley
You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,Enters the devil murder.
John Webster
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare
An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
Jeff Lindsay
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should their liberty than ours be more?
William Shakespeare