Quotes by Dramatists - Page 2

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
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
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
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
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
W.S. Gilbert
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
William Butler Yeats
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
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.
William Butler Yeats
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
W.S. Gilbert
I have a remarkable memory I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
Jules Renard
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
Love is nature's second son.
George Chapman
Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
W.S. Gilbert
Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."
Edward Young
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
William Butler Yeats
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
W.S. Gilbert
Did nothing in particular and did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard
Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
W.S. Gilbert
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What we frankly give forever is our own.
George Granville
Youth condemns maturity condones.
Josephine Preston Peabody
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but it was not there. I tried to find it in money but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life when I began to develop my limited ability to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly I began to feel the stimulating warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young
Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
For greed all nature is too little.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca