Quotes by Playwrights - Page 30

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.
Oscar Wilde
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
Mikhail Bulgakov
The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place.
Cormac McCarthy
She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.
Samuel Beckett
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
Eric Bogosian
The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
Honoré de Balzac
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
William Shakespeare
Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn't. You can't get insurance money without paying in premiums.
Dodie Smith
What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
Damon Galgut
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is groundUpon my flesh t'inflict another wound.Yet dare I not complain, or wish for deathWith holy Paul; lest it be thought the breathOf discontent; or that these prayers beFor weariness of life, not love of thee.
Ben Jonson
Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.
Susan Nussbaum
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
William Shakespeare
Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beshrew me but I love her heartily, For she is wise, if I can judge of her, And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true, And true she is, as she hath proved herself: And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true, Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
William Shakespeare
An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.
Henning Mankell
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If only my heart were stone.
Cormac McCarthy
... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.
Graham Greene
There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.
Françoise Sagan
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography, as it deals not with events, but with the thoughts of one's life; not with life's physical accidents of deed or circumstance, but with the spiritual moods and imaginative passions of the mind...The best that one can say of most modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality, and so the critic, with his fine sense of distinction and sure instinct of delicate refinement, will prefer to look into the silver mirror or through the woven veil, and will turn his eyes away from the chaos and clamor of actual existence, though the mirror be tarnished and the veil be torn. His sole aim is to chronicle his own impressions. It is for him that pictures are painted, books written, and marble hewn into form.
Oscar Wilde
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S Eliot
Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
William Shakespeare
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah Richards
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann von Goethe
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene
Sophocles
I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.
Margaret Cavendish
He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
Evgeny Shvarts
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
For where Love reigns, disturbing JealousyDoth call himself Affection's sentinel;Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!
Venus and Adonis William Shakespeare
I was born for the peaceful life,for rural quiet:the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding,creative dreams are more alive.To harmless leisures consecrated,I wander by a wasteful lakeand far niente is my rule.By every morn I am awakened unto sweet mollitude and freedom;little I read, a lot I sleep,fugitive fame do not pursue.Was it not thus in former years,that I spent in inaction, in the shade,my happiest days?
Alexander Pushkin
I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!
Christy Hall
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.
Christy Hall
All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much.
Rachel Joyce
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.
Graham Greene
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
Oscar Wilde
He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.
Daphne du Maurier
She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?
Yukio Mishima
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?
Graham Greene
Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
Thornton Wilder
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
George Bernard Shaw
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
Graham Greene
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay