Quotes by Playwrights - Page 158

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.
Wole Soyinka
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
T.S Eliot
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare
It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;
Maurice Maeterlinck
Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.
Samuel Beckett
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.
Gertrude Stein
Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
Honoré de Balzac
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in wonted manner keep:Hesperus entreats thy light,Goddess excellently bright.Earth, let not thy envious shadeDare itself to interpose,Cynthia's shining orb was madeHeaven to clear when day did close:Bless us then with wished sight,Goddess excellently bright.Lay thy bow of pearl apart,And thy crystal-shining quiver,Give unto the flying hartSpace to breath, how short soever:Thou that mak'st a day of night-Goddess excellently bright.
Ben Jonson
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
Oscar Wilde
We read to know we're not alone.
William Nicholson
All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?
Henrik Ibsen
The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.
Graham Greene
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never die run smooth
William Shakespeare
The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.
Michael McClure
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot write unless you write much.
W Somerset Maugham
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
Nikolai Gogol
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Oscar Wilde
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
William Shakespeare
All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for each other on Judgment Day. Perhaps on that day, in the haste of it, the bodies of traitors will have to settle for heads other than their own. Some inevitable mismatching of villians and rogues will take place. And one fine bony fellow will spy his skull upon another's body. Then another. And then maybe we shall be witness to the brawl and battle of the bones...
George Garrett
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Molière
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
William Inge
And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.
Sophocles
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
Nikolai Gogol
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem’s signature. “Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.
Joseph Heller
When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point.Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.
David Henry Hwang
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.
Rebecca Wells
Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war behind the actual one. During all this time it has never budged from me, that irremovable shadow, it hovers over every thought of mine by day and by night; perhaps its dark outline lies on some pages of this book, too. But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.
Stefan Zweig
I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them.
W Somerset Maugham
Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.
W Somerset Maugham
Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
Eoin Colfer
May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.
Knut Hamsun
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.
Emma Donoghue
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
William Shakespeare
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
Graham Greene