Quotes by Playwrights - Page 163

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
William Shakespeare
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every medicine is vain.
Aeschylus
A mug's game in my opinion and tiring on top of that, in the long run. But I lent myself to it with a good enough grace, knowing it was love, for she had told me so.
Samuel Beckett
Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lost in Hell,-Persephone,Take her head upon your knee;Say to her, "My dear, my dear,It is not so dreadful here.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.
Alan Bennett
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
George Bernard Shaw
The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God’s Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
Arthur Schnitzler
Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....
Tennessee Williams
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read
Oscar Wilde
What does it say?" asked my lord."It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, `God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time----
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Euripides
Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which it rots.
Georg Büchner
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Tom Stoppard
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.
Robert Greene
When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....
Jean-Paul Sartre
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Maurice Maeterlinck
I care so much about everything that I care about nothing
William Saroyan
I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?
Arthur Miller
Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.
Sinclair Lewis
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene
. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.
Meredith Willson
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
William Shakespeare
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
Honoré de Balzac
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Samuel Beckett
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Thornton Wilder
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.
Howard Zinn
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.
William Congreve
Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere...
Christy Hall
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Oscar Wilde
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Oscar Wilde
Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.
Robert Greene