Quotes by Playwrights - Page 46

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.
Robert Greene
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar Wilde
Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.
Honoré de Balzac
That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.
Edna Ferber
Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death,The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were ’t good?I think she stirs again—No. What’s best to do?If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife—My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!Methinks it should be now a huge eclipseOf sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globeShould yawn at alteration.
William Shakespeare
No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
Euripides
A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.
Mihail Sebastian
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
Arthur Miller
He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
Jean-Paul Sartre
At little more than kin and less than kind.
William Shakespeare
Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
And then he went in the evening up to the nursery and told the boy how his mother was gone for a while to Elfland, to her father's palace (which may only be told of in song). And, unheeding any words of Orion then, he held on with the brief tale that he had come to tell, and told how Elfland was gone."But that cannot be," said Orion, "for I hear the horns of Elfland every day.""You can hear them?" Alveric said.And the boy replied, "I hear them blowing at evening.
Lord Dunsany
If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle.
Eden Phillpotts
When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.
Tony Kushner
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
Knut Hamsun
The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front - no real surprise, since they gave out food and clothing, all all you had to do was spend a few moments of your life listening to the good reverend explain why you were going to Hell. It seemed like a pretty good bargain, even to me, but I wasn't hungry.
Jeff Lindsay
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Langdon Mitchell
I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
William Shakespeare
The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
Eoin Colfer
On the third day Vera said:'I love your body because it is beautiful. But I do not know your soul. I do not know whether there is a soul. Nor is it necessary for me because your body is beautiful.But everything is mutable and you will grow old. At first your face will grow old. Your body will live longer. An old face will be a mockery before a youthful body. And then a wasted body will be a mockery to ravenous desires.This is like the dead light of the setting sun which from the clouds above was reflected in the water... feeble and full of disillusion.Should I not kill you so that I might always possess you for myself.'And Vera became terrifying.I found this unpleasant.But from these words I understood that she had decided upon the day.("Thirty-Three Abominations")
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
Arnold Bennett
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both recognizes and demands recognition. I see you, or here, he said to her. In order for something to be handed over a hand must extend and a hand must receive. We must both be here in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of.
Claudia Rankine
Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.
Maxim Gorky
Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.
Tony Harrison
To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in New York said:WITCH lives and smiles in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating clothes our sick society demands. There is no "joining" WITCH. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a WITCH. You make your own rules.
Howard Zinn
Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.
William Shakespeare
All will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes
If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be or not to be that is the question.
William Shakespeare
The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)
Barbara Blatner
The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real events’. P3
Beatrix Campbell
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Euripides
The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.
Mehmet Murat ildan
We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
Euripides
We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
Stefan Zweig
...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
Alfred Jarry
As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Swinburne
Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body
Utpal Dutta
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.
Graham Greene
Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Václav Havel
Busy people are never busybodies.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller