Quotes by Playwrights - Page 29

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.
Rachel Joyce
He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?
Cormac McCarthy
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.
Edward Albee
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William Shakespeare
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe he made a couple of off-color remarks about law-enforcement professionals, and maybe he’s been hiding from the cops ever since an incident a few years back involving a bleeding hooker, nine pounds of cocaine, and a soiled image of Tipper Gore.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am
William Shakespeare
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.
Naomi Ragen
We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
Susan Glaspell
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
Grant Morrison
The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
W Somerset Maugham
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and looseand turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
Euripides
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.
William Shakespeare
But then I sigh, with a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
Irvine Welsh
I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.
Rachel Joyce
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles
Pierre Albert-Birot
Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.
Louis Nowra
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'Neill
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
Damon Galgut
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
William Shakespeare
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
W Somerset Maugham
I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood -
Philip Ridley
The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.
Yukio Mishima
Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.
Dodie Smith
Commitment is an act, not a word
Jean-Paul Sartre
The ripest fruit first falls.
William Shakespeare
Yet from time to time we are betrayed by language, if not in the words themselves, in the rhythm with which we deliver our words. Over time, I would learn to listen for those wonderful moments when people spoke a kind of personal music, which left a rhythmic architecture of who they were. I would be much more interested in those rhythmic architectures than in the information they might or might not reveal.
Anne Deavere Smith
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
T.S Eliot
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
Daphne du Maurier
I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.
Shellen Lubin
Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.
Samuel Beckett
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
Mikhail Bulgakov
A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Mehmet Murat ildan
I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.
Alan Bennett