Quotes by Playwrights - Page 65

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
Betty Smith
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
Samuel Beckett
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
Tennessee Williams
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Bertolt Brecht
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
Robert Greene
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?
Molière
They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure
W Somerset Maugham
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams.I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams.I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes.I hear you when the billows rise on high,With murmur deep.To tread the silent grove where wander I,When all's asleep.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're in love with the wrong person. Worse things. Things you never forgive yourself for.
Dodie Smith
Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.
Eoin Colfer
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman
If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.
Jeff Lindsay
They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
Mehmet Murat ildan
turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Estragon: They're too bigVladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day
Samuel Beckett
Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.
Kōbō Abe
You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.
Jean Webster
But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence.
Juhani Peltonen
Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich von Schiller
A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.
Anosh Irani
Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You don’t have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
Alice Childress
A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
Jeff Lindsay
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.
Oscar Wilde
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.
Edmond Rostand
The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...
Alan Dapre
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own experience. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of knowledge was honey all the same.
Maxim Gorky
If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.
Robertson Davies
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.
Honoré de Balzac
the train plunges on through the pitch-black nightI never knew I liked the night pitch-blacksparks fly from the engineI didn't know I loved sparksI didn't know I loved so many things and I had to wait until sixty to find it out sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return
Nâzım Hikmet
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
Cormac McCarthy
It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.
Eve Ensler
Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil lines and paint strokes in his favorite cartoon characters, his mind never quite separating the creatures from the art that brought them to life.
Kara Lee Corthron
On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.
Thomas Bernhard
One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Johann von Goethe
They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr's fireplace. They had ridden in speedboats and played tennis. They had been horseback riding. One had once been to bed with an older woman. They knew the same poeple in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other's cousins.
Joseph Heller