Quotes by Playwrights - Page 22

Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
Gertrude Stein
Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
Eoin Colfer
God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.
Langston Hughes
Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.
Benito Pérez Galdós
THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. But when you are as old as I am; when you have a thousand times wearied of heaven, like myself and the Commander, and a thousand times wearied of hell, as you are wearied now, you will no longer imagine that every swing from heaven to hell is an emancipation, every swing from hell to heaven an evolution. Where you now see reform, progress, fulfilment of upward tendency, continual ascent by Man on the stepping stones of his dead selves to higher things, you will see nothing but an infinite comedy of illusion....
George Bernard Shaw
When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.
William Shakespeare
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles
You will best realise the speed of life when you stop and watch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.
Langston Hughes
Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air.
Oscar Wilde
To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved, but at the final stage I had substituted desire for love and felt a sort of relief. But in the end I had understood that desire itself demanded for its fulfillment that I should forget about the conditions of my existence, and that I should abandon what for me constituted the only barrier to love, namely the belief that I could not be loved. I had always thought of desire as being something clearer than it really is, and I had not realized that it required people to see themselves in a slightly dreamlike, unreal way.
Yukio Mishima
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea that has cast a spell on me. And every time I think about Promethea, I see her crossing this great expanse by boat and soon, alas, a storm comes up, my memory clouds over, in a flash there are shipwrecks, I cannot even cry out, my mouth is full of saltwater sobs. I am flooded with vague, deceptive recollections, I am drowning in my imagination in tears borrowed from the most familiar tragedies, I wish I had never read certain books whose poison is working in me. Has this Friday, perhaps, thrown a spell on me? But spells only work if you catch them. I have caught the Tragic illness. If only Promethea would make me some tea I know I would find some relief. But that is exactly what is impossible. And so, today, I am sinning. I am sinking beneath reality. I am weighted down with literature. That is my fate. Yet I had the presence of mind to start this parenthesis, the only healthy moment in these damp, feverish hours. All this to try to come back to the surface of our book... Phone me quickly, Promethea, get me out of this parenthesis fast!)
Hélène Cixous
One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
Graham Greene
And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.
Lao She
The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
Elfriede Jelinek
I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.
Nikolai Gogol
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
Oscar Wilde
There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.
Kōbō Abe
Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.
Anton Chekhov
It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
Tennessee Williams
Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.
Henrik Ibsen
No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
William Congreve
No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours,and those they lose.
Colley Cibber
History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme
Seamus Heaney
Rose, this is Sebby," she said. "Sebby, Rose.""Oh yeah. Sebastian, right?" Rose said. "I've hard about you.""Only terrible things, I hope.""The worst.
Kate Scelsa
Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
Paula Vogel
Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.
Eoin Colfer
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A.A. Milne
The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among the conquerorsThe common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.
Nikolai Gogol
Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?""Like what things?""Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
Emma Donoghue
She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.
Jean Webster
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Seán O'Casey
They are the we of me.
Carson McCullers
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die
Nikolai Gogol
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
Jean Genet
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
Mae West
Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
W Somerset Maugham
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Dodie Smith
It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Thy wish was father to that thought.
William Shakespeare
Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.
Eoin Colfer