Quotes by Playwrights - Page 38

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
Mae West
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
Christopher Marlowe
A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it.A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.
Lord Dunsany
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
Tony Harrison
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugène Ionesco
Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.
Tony Kushner
Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Her character was like a country which on first acquaintance seems grand, but inhospitable; but in which presently you discover smiling little villages among fruit trees in the folds of the majestic mountains, and pleasant ambling rivers that flow kindly through lush meadows. But these comfortable scenes, though they surprise and even reassure you, are not enough to make you feel at home in the land of tawny heights and windswept spaces.
m. somerset maugham
While there's life there's hope.
Terence
And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.
Seamus Heaney
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
Thornton Wilder
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W Somerset Maugham
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
William Shakespeare
Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.
Arthur Miller
The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adams's Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parson's Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.
Henry Fielding
It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Cormac McCarthy
You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade.
Samuel Beckett
He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
W Somerset Maugham
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T.S Eliot
Quality not quantity is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time.
William Shakespeare
People go to the movies instead of moving.
Tennessee Williams
My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.
Graham Greene
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith
The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars.
George Elliott Clarke
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
Oscar Wilde
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Graham Greene
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Honoré de Balzac
Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.
Howard Zinn
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
O call back yesterday bid time return.
William Shakespeare
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing.
Sarah Ruhl
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.
J.B. Priestley
True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
Betty Smith
Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.
Ami McKay
The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.
Oscar Wilde
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
W Somerset Maugham
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
Mehmet Murat ildan