Quotes by Playwrights - Page 159

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Oscar Wilde
It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
A.A. Milne
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.
Elias Zapple
He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
Howard Zinn
When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton Wilder
I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
People who understand everything get no stories.
Bertolt Brecht
Well, I must do’t. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot’s spirit! My throat of war be turn’d, Which quier’d with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys’ tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar’s tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm’d knees, Who bow’d but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv’d an alms! I will not do’t, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body’s action teach my mind A most inherent baseness.
William Shakespeare
Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.
Euripides
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...
Christy Hall
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
Carson McCullers
Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.
Jean Webster
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.
Anton Chekhov
I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I'd rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me in advance on TV, slowly, so that I can write it down, in case it's worth the proper guilt. Sinning is enough, there's no need for surprises as well.
Elfriede Jelinek
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
Cormac McCarthy
A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Work is more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: "as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again "I am a woman," because we exist in an epoch still so ancient and ignorant and slow that there is still always the danger of gynocide.
Hélène Cixous
With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.
Ben Elton
Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
Jean-Paul Sartre
Tut, Tut, looks like rain
A.A. Milne
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
Mehmet Murat ildan
design is so important because chaos is so hard
Jules Feiffer
Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could destroy my undoubtedly quite genuine feelings for Bertrand; and it could destroy something else within me, something ill-defined but fiercely felt, which, whether I liked it or not, was opposed to transience. Or, at the very least, to the intentionally transient nature of what Luc what was offering. And then, even if I was able to conceive of any passion or liaison as being short-lived, I couldn't accept in advance that it had to be that way. Like any individual for whom life is a series of charades, I could bear the charades only if they were written by me, and by me alone.
Françoise Sagan
Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddington had spoken of that led nowhither, but the path those dear nuns at the convent followed so humbly, the path that led to peace.
W Somerset Maugham
Think neither fear nor courage saves us.Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
T.S Eliot
It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.
Jean Genet
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
Elizabeth Inchbald
Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.
Thornton Wilder
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
Niall Williams
Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.
Edna Ferber
To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.
Hélène Cixous
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.
Tennessee Williams
Watch out when the bad treats you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
David Mamet
Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo
William Shakespeare
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Thornton Wilder
We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
Susan Glaspell
Like madness is the glory of this life.
William Shakespeare
Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
William Shakespeare
So many men so many opinions.
Terence
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
Irvine Welsh
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde