Quotes by Playwrights - Page 34

In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?"t"Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation," he said with his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier, "torments." "And Heaven too," Rose said with anxiety, while the rain fell interminably on. "Oh, maybe," the Boy said, "maybe.
Graham Greene
A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.
Carson McCullers
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
Sir James M. Barrie
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
William Shakespeare
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Anton Chekhov
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
Peter Stone
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
Robertson Davies
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Ben Jonson
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.
Nicholas Stuart Gray
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
We number nothing that we spend for you;Our duty is so rich, so infinite,That we may do it still without accompt.Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,That we, like savages, may worship it.
William Shakespeare
Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that “the good” exists, that one must be honest or must not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men. Dostoevsky once wrote: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar Wilde
Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
Lord Dunsany
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.
Hélène Cixous
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
Tom Stoppard
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Arthur Miller
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
George Bernard Shaw
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein
It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.
Reginald Rose
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.
Stefan Zweig
MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.There's no second spring for a woman. None.She can't recall it, nobody wants her, howeverShe squanders her time on the promise of oracles,It's no use...
Aristophanes
Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't know.
Samuel Beckett
Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.
William Shakespeare
I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.
Henry de Montherlant
My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.
Oscar Wilde
I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seventh streets, they're all out then, making believe they're shopping, in their furs and their crazy hats, everything all concentrated from all over the world into eight blocks, the best furs, the best clothes, the handsomest women, out to spend money and feeling good about it, looking coldly at you, making believe they're not looking at you as you go past.
Irwin Shaw
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
Alfred de Musset
You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.
Harold Pinter
Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.
Heathcote Williams
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
Grant Morrison
Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.'Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
William Shakespeare
Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
Cormac McCarthy
It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass.
Friedrich Schiller
Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
Graham Greene
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your neck. I want to kiss it.
Edmond Rostand