Quotes by Playwrights - Page 74

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.
Elfriede Jelinek
O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare
There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Thornton Wilder
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Think, think, think.
A.A. Milne
You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.
Françoise Sagan
When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.
George Bernard Shaw
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
Ntozake Shange
It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)
William Shakespeare
Time is the stuff life's made of.
David Belasco
What we love we may also despise.
Françoise Sagan
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Ben Jonson
The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how to raise awareness so that other people didn’t have to suffer the same, and how to understand, and then challenge, offenders who so love what they do to children that they can and must shut their minds to the feelings of children who have put their trust in them. P4
Beatrix Campbell
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W Somerset Maugham
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
Oscar Wilde
To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
DUMBLEDORE: You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.HARRY: So I’m supposed to stand and watch?DUMBLEDORE: No. You’re supposed to teach him how to meet life.
Jack Thorne
She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt.
Samuel Beckett
What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.
Oscar Wilde
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
Henrik Ibsen
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.
Cormac McCarthy
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)
Witold Gombrowicz
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Edward Albee
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides
Thought is free.
William Shakespeare
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.
Thornton Wilder
The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
Graham Greene
Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain.
Anne Deavere Smith
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
Jean Genet
If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.
Sir Walter Scott
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.
Juhani Peltonen
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.
W Somerset Maugham
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
Anton Chekhov
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
William Shakespeare
The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
Jeff Lindsay
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium
Oscar Wilde
Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña.
Federico García Lorca
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
Honoré de Balzac
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.
George Bernard Shaw
I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
Betty Smith
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.
Georg Büchner
One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.
Euripides
Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson