Quotes by Dramatists

O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack,For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back,Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.
W.B. Yeats
Why should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire?What could have made her peaceful with a mindThat nobleness made simple as a fire,With beauty like a tightened bow, a kindThat is not natural in an age like thisBeing high and solitary and most stern?Why, what could she have done, being what she is?Was there another Troy for her to burn?
W.B. Yeats
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.
William Butler Yeats
Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.
Charles Reade
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
W.S. Gilbert
Words writ in waters.
George Chapman
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
A woman never sees what we do for her she only sees what we don't do.
Georges Courteline
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W.S. Gilbert
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
The little Road says Go The little House says Stay And oh it's bonny here at home But I must go away.
Josephine P. Peabody
Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
William Butler Yeats
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is a satire on today And shows its weakness.
Edward Young
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When in fear it is safest to force the attack.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A stranger's eyes see clearest.
Charles Reade
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Jules Renard
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Jules Renard
He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
Friedrich Klopstock
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Henry Taylor
Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
W.S. Gilbert
The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.
Marquis de Racan
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.
W.S. Gilbert
Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
Jules Renard
I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W.S. Gilbert
A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.
William Butler Yeats
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
William Butler Yeats
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
W.S. Gilbert
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
William Butler Yeats
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
W.S. Gilbert
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
W.S. Gilbert
Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
W.S. Gilbert
The course of nature is the art of God.
Edward Young