Quotes by Playwrights - Page 90

Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing
Oscar Wilde
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.
Jeff Lindsay
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.
Daphne du Maurier
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
Sophocles
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
August Strindberg
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
Franz Werfel
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.
Lorraine Hansberry
Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, there are no living poets, Miss Van Damn. We're not entirely sure there ever were. They've found some shreds of sonnets in England and, embedded in a chalk wall of a cave in France, some yet undetermined thing which might be the legendary inward eye. But all evidence, such as it is, suggests that, if there ever were poets, they were all burned into extinction during the interglacial period of despair.
Paddy Chayefsky
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.
Oscar Wilde
Listen. Outside this frame I can see light,heavy as pardon, reliable as granite.Help me. Help me drag it into the picture.
Jeanne Murray Walker
After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.
Eve Ensler
Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
Simon Armitage
Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
Christy Hall
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West
We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.
David Hare
Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
T.S Eliot
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Isaac Babel
The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.
Cormac McCarthy
Have you sipped your poems today?
Helvy Tiana Rosa
Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny.
Betty Smith
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
Thomas Bernhard
His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Oscar Wilde
The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail Bulgakov
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
For a great willpower, no road has length!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.
Elfriede Jelinek
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.
Cormac McCarthy
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
George Bernard Shaw
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
Graham Greene
We love without reason and without reason we hate.
Jean-Frangois Regnard
We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
William Shakespeare
Stories are a different kind of true.
Emma Donoghue
The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.
Christy Hall
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.
Irwin Shaw
Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.
Oscar Wilde
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Franz Grillparzer
You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!
Mehmet Murat ildan