Quotes by Playwrights - Page 66

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison
If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
Cormac McCarthy
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.
Hélène Cixous
A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I actually hate Christmas," says Eileen. "Everybody has this idea you have to have a good time, like happiness comes in a ruddy packet." Her face is flushed with heat. "One time, I stayed in bed all day. That was one of my best Christmases.
Rachel Joyce
Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
Rebecca Wells
Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler.“Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.”Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.”“Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.
Eoin Colfer
Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?
Oscar Wilde
To save all we must risk all.
Friedrich Schiller
The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.
Edward Albee
The Whiteman told of another country beyond the sea where a powerful woman sat on a throne while men and women danced under the shadow of her authority and benevolence. She was ready to spread the shadow to cover the Agikuyu. They laughed at this eccentric man whose skin had been so scalded that the black outside had peeled off. The hot water must have gone into his head.Nevertheless, his words about a woman on the throne echoed something in the heart, deep down in their history. It was many, many years ago. Then women ruled the land of the Agikuyu. Men had no property, they were only there to serve the whims and needs of the women. Those were hard years. So they waited for women to go to war, they plotted a revolt, taking an oath of secrecy to keep them bound each to each in the common pursuit of freedom. They would sleep with all the women at once, for didn't they know the heroines would return hungry for love and relaxation? Fate did the rest; women were pregnant; the takeover met with little resistance.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows
William Shakespeare
Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.
Oscar Wilde
I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?
Eoin Colfer
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
Man appoints and God disappoints.
Cervantes
If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
Jeff Lindsay
But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John Dryden
To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...
William Shakespeare
Death is the ultimate negative.
Tom Stoppard
But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
Robertson Davies
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
Gertrude Stein
Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber
My man's as true as steel.
William Shakespeare
The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")
Tennessee Williams
There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.
Irvine Welsh
She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats.
Kathy Acker
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
William Shakespeare
WoyzeckYes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.
Georg Büchner
Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.
Lord Dunsany
Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?
William Inge
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
T.S Eliot
Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.
Tom Stoppard
When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Oscar Wilde
It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.
J.M. Barrie
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Françoise Sagan
Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests.""It is so," said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness. "Many strange things," he said, "have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.
Lord Dunsany
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your right to it, and now you can't sleep, which, of course, is certainly better than if you were content, slept soundly, and thought everything was fine. Your insomnia is respectable; in any event, it's a good sign. In fact, for our parents such a conversation as we're having now would have been unthinkable; they didn't talk at night, they slept soundly, but we, our generation, sleep badly, are anguished, talk a lot, and keep trying to decide if we're right or not.- A Medical Case
Anton Chekhov
Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
William Shakespeare
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
David Mamet