Quotes by Playwrights - Page 62

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.
Tennessee Williams
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
Oscar Wilde
He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said is was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation.
Cormac McCarthy
LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
William Shakespeare
If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
Samuel Beckett
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
Graham Greene
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human being, in some cases a higher one, in others a lower. He secretly admired the weak, pale, little girl and had picked her to be his wife. That was still the only way he could think of a woman - as a wife. He danced in a very chaste and proper manner, but he heard awful stories about his pals, stories he didn't understand until later. They could dance the waltz backwards around the room in a very indecent way, and they told naughty stories about the girls.
August Strindberg
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
J. C. F. von Schiller
...But...to sing,to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see!To cock your hat to one side, when you pleaseat a yes, a no, to fight, or- make poetry!To work without a thought of fame or fortune,on that journey, that you dream of, to the moon!Never to write a line that's not your own...
Edmond Rostand
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams
No writer can be the ‘Master of the Words’ without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.
William Shakespeare
As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!
Mikhail Bulgakov
Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.
August Wilson
Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.
Jeff Lindsay
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
William Saroyan
You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.
Mihail Sebastian
So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.
Graham Greene
I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth
Eric Gamalinda
This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book.
William Shakespeare
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
George Bernard Shaw
I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.
Samuel Beckett
I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
Jean Webster
The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.
Beverley Nichols
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?
Anton Chekhov
The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
Brian Yorkey
The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.
Honoré de Balzac
Otaguro’s bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. “Every man is fighting,” he murmured. “Every man.
Yukio Mishima
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
Oscar Wilde
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
If someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me - and I long to mention it myself. I start subjects leading up to it, and then I feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak to him again - and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it!
Dodie Smith
By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.
Eoin Colfer
When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Past and to come seems best things present worst.
William Shakespeare
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
George Bernard Shaw
How could you...? How?""Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your l
Eoin Colfer
If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.
Damon Galgut
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
Aaron Sorkin
Friendship's a noble name 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!
Mehmet Murat ildan