Quotes by Playwrights - Page 91

And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.
Anton Chekhov
It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?
Larry Kramer
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Anton Chekhov
His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history.
Jason Miller
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.
William Shakespeare
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.
Samuel Beckett
Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.
Assotto Saint
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
Richard Hughes
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.
Wole Soyinka
No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done...(from 'The Storyteller Poems')
Liz Lochhead
Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Alexander Pushkin
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been—no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.
Robertson Davies
I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.
Eoin Colfer
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
Thornton Wilder
There are many you’s within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.
Ronald Frame
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing
Tennessee Williams
Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
Yukio Mishima
MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.
Hillary DePiano
A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.
W Somerset Maugham
The fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.
Elias Canetti
Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same.
George Bernard Shaw
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
William Shakespeare
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
Eve Ensler
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
Wole Soyinka
Heaven for climate hell for company.
James M. Barrie
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
Barney Norris
What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.
Emily C.A. Snyder
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.
Sue Townsend
Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
Emma Donoghue
I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
Irvine Welsh
Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!"Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?"Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave!Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave'sAlready as familiar as an ague,And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I canForget myself in private, but elsewhere,I pray do you remember be."Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir.I conster myself saucy."Lussurioso: "What hast been? What profession?"Vindice: "A bone-setter."Lussurioso: "A bone-setter!"Vindice: "A bawd, my lord, one that sets bones together."Lussurioso: (aside) "Notable bluntness!
Thomas Middleton
The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.
Gertrude Stein
To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?
Mehmet Murat ildan
All that glisters is not gold.
Miguel de Cervantes
A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
Edmond Rostand
But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.
Jean Webster
Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,And all their ministers attend on him.
William Shakespeare
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.
Oscar Wilde
This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.
Yukio Mishima
Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.
William Shakespeare
cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale
Arthur Miller
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann von Goethe
Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John Galsworthy