Quotes by Playwrights - Page 178

Timon: Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!
William Shakespeare
Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works.
Eric Bentley
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else’s life.
Wiesław Myśliwski
Спомням си как през летните следобеди, които прекарвах там, баба ми, привършила домашната работа, сядаше до прозореца на светло и вадеше от своя скришен сандък една огромна Библия с твърди корици, обвита с тогавашния официозен вестник "Работническо дело" по конспиративни причини. Вече знаех, че комунизмът и Библията никак не се обичаха.
Georgi Gospodinov
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.
Cormac McCarthy
Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.
Chris Grabenstein
What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?
Jeff Lindsay
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
William Shakespeare
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
T.S Eliot
The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.
Georg Büchner
They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.
Paul Zindel
Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
William Shakespeare
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
Oscar Wilde
...and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel a draught.' 'O George, never ask me to do that. The window must always be left open for them, always, always.
J.M. Barrie
What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;
William Shakespeare
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Johann von Goethe
Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's really look at one another!...I can't. I can't go on.It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back -- up the hill -- to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye , Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover's Corners....Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking....and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths....and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth,you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every,every minute?Stage Manager: No. (pause) The saints and poets, maybe they do some.Emily: I'm ready to go back.
Thornton Wilder
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
Tom Stoppard
Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.
Larry Kramer
Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth's hands, for instance—they are fine hands, with long fingers that remind me of tapered candles. A person one has loved—the memory of their hands. Did they flutter or sit still? Dry? Moist? Cool on a hot forehead? What? That is what I wish to express in my paintings. The memory—of the movement—of very particular hands, even though they appear to be unmoving on canvas.
Sarah Ruhl
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Pierre Corneille
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.
Arthur Miller
HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.
William Nicholson
When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Eugene O'Neill
To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!
Peter Shaffer
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Oscar Wilde
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?
Rebecca Wells
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel
William Shakespeare
There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
David Mamet
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
Oscar Wilde
Only one who loves can remember so well.
Anton Chekhov