Quotes by Playwrights - Page 45

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.
Graham Greene
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W Somerset Maugham
Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.
Sarah Ruhl
I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.
Horace Annesley Vachell
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
William Shakespeare
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
Tennessee Williams
Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here.
Cormac McCarthy
You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
Henrik Ibsen
Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
Carson McCullers
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau
Make me immortal with a kiss.
Christopher Marlowe
They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lost my life in the textile mill of Nefidov—my master presented one prima donna with a golden wash basin. Every one of her toilet articles was gold. That basin holds my life-blood, my very life. That's for what my life went! A man killed me with work in order to comfort his mistress with my blood. He bought her a gold wash basin with my blood.
Maxim Gorky
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
Oscar Wilde
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
Sophocles
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Seamus Heaney
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Cormac McCarthy
God helps the brave.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.
Kōbō Abe
Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
William Shakespeare
No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
W Somerset Maugham
There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.
Moss Hart
Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
Honoré de Balzac
Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.
Eoin Colfer
When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.
Sinclair Lewis
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
Euripides
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
Oscar Wilde
The old are a regular subject for sympathy.
Barney Norris
How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Say a day without the ever.
William Shakespeare
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
Aaron Sorkin
When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.
Jerome Lawrence
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
We can think a healed thought and speak a healed word, speak of and to the two who are One, our MotherGoddessFatherGod. The hopeful but misty thought that "I've a Mother there" will give way to the experience that "I've a Mother here." We will know Him, Her, Them, Us, the Divine Family unbroken, bringing part to whole and whole to part, singing the indispensable She who had been forgotten but it now found, singing the wholeness, singing the holiness.
Carol Lynn Pearson
Now, as they pressured perfect footprints into the snow that had been accumulating all day, his father took Harry's hand."Heshele, how are you?""OK, I guess.""Are you very sad?""I don't know. I know I should be. But what does it mean to be sad?"His father stopped. He cupped his free hand to let the snow gather. It quickly turned from an inviting white coating to black-specked gray water."Sadness is in my hand. In a second, a thing of beauty becomes dirty water; innocence leaves a child's eyes; he who strived for immortality lies forgotten under weeds. Sad is missing the love that death has sealed in the ground or that life has denied life to.""Then I'm sad. When you took my hand, I remembered how he took my hand when we went to the pier to fish. And I thought: That will never happen again. And then I thought: Up until now I never understood the word never, and there was a lump in my throat.
Amram Ducovny
If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way
Eve Ensler
For an infinite journey, we need an endless road, an immortal vehicle and an eternal body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
Kōbō Abe
When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...)
Samuel Beckett
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
Dodie Smith
If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.
Janet Burroway
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren
Arthur Miller