Quotes by Playwrights - Page 20

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses
Eric Gamalinda
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.
Carson McCullers
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
Anton Chekhov
That's the problem with getting your heart wrapped up in things. The dumbest stuff starts to carry way too much significance. You think about things way too much. You imagine a hole being filled that rarely bothered you at all when it was empty.
Kara Lee Corthron
Love me in actions, not in words.
Dee Dee M. Scott
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
Betrayal is beautiful.
Jean Genet
DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
William Shakespeare
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most of life’s big steps require a certain muddling through, a trusting that no one really knows the magical formula for the big firsts in life [Cram, Cusi, "‘One Life to Live’ and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015].
Cusi Cram
When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?
Rebecca Wells
Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
Mikhail Bulgakov
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
William Shakespeare
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
Oscar Wilde
Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won’t get mixed up.
Betty Smith
Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad.
Edward Albee
Foul whisperings are abroad.
William Shakespeare
He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable regret. And that's why I tell you that Byring is right. Even though it only lasts five years, even though he ruins his career, even though this marriage ends in disaster, it will have been worth while. He will have been satisfied. He will have fulfilled himself.
W Somerset Maugham
Hungry Joe was crazy, and no one knew it better than Yossarian, who did everything he could to help him. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen to Yossarian. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen because he thought Yossarian was crazy
Joseph Heller
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
William Shakespeare
Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.
Michael Frayn
The reflection is as real as the reflected till you touch it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.
Dodie Smith
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee
You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.
Samuel Beckett
When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'll find a day to massacre them allAnd raze their faction and their family,The cruel father and his traitorous sons,To whom I sued for my dear son's life,And make them know what 'tis to let a queenKneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West
He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.
Françoise Sagan
You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.
Yukio Mishima
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.
Howard Zinn
If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It was always once springtime in my heart.
Oscar Wilde
Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?
Maurice Maeterlinck
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Sophocles
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
William Shakespeare
...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
Samuel Beckett
Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson
Ashfaq Ahmed
One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Dodie Smith
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Oscar Wilde