Quotes by Dramatists - Page 3

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Henry Taylor
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
Edward Young
I am afraid I shall not find Him but I shall still look for Him. If He exists He may be appreciative of my efforts.
Jules Renard
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
Mary Russell Mitford
Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.
George Chapman
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.
W.S. Gilbert
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
William Butler Yeats
Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.
Edward Young
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
Jean Racine
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
W.S. Gilbert
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
W.S. Gilbert
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
Courage leads starward fear toward death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
The soft whispers of the God in man.
Edward Young
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
William Butler Yeats
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Edward Young