Quotes by Playwrights - Page 64

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second a nasty red welt, which may fester if not treated with a salve of toadstool mandarin doodoo. And the third is a bold of self-awareness, thanks to the entheogens in the venom. Having been stung, a victim's typical reaction will be something like:Owww. Zark, that hurts.Then:Oh no. Look at this nasty red welt. I'm in the swimsuit competition later.And finally:What? I'm a latent misogynist with father issues!If a person is allergic to mandarin venom, one sting will prompt total self-awareness, leading to either immediate catatonia or a career as a talk show pundit.
Eoin Colfer
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Jeff Lindsay
When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.
Anton Chekhov
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
Terence
Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
Oscar Wilde
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan Bennett
The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....
Tennessee Williams
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
George Bernard Shaw
Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.
Yukio Mishima
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.
Federico García Lorca
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human
Anton Chekhov
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.
Graham Greene
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
George Ade
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
William Shakespeare
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.
Maurice Maeterlinck
After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years.So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.
Joseph Stein
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
Luigi Pirandello
In uplifting get underneath.
George Ade
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
Cormac McCarthy
Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.
Plautus
Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.
John Webster
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
Brendan Behan
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice
Friedrich Schiller
It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come.
Jason Hewitt
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde
People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.
Fanny Britt
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.
Christy Hall
Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
Aristophanes
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.
Mehmet Murat ildan
And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation. (P. 56)
George Bernard Shaw
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
Anna Deavere Smith
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
Anton Chekhov
Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
Cormac McCarthy
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!
William Shakespeare
War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
Carson McCullers
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
Cormac McCarthy
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.
Oscar Wilde
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
William Shakespeare