Quotes by Playwrights - Page 10

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.
Mae West
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.
Euripides
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
A man can hide all things excepting twain - That he is drunk and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.
Lord Dunsany
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!
John Dryden
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft 'With our own feathers not by others' hands Are we now smitten.'
Aeschylus
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
Ay every inch a king.
William Shakespeare
Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.
Honoré de Balzac
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.
Mae West
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S Eliot
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Neil Simon
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Luigi Pirandello
We do not write as we want but as we can.
W Somerset Maugham
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann von Goethe
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
Tennessee Williams
The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.
Euripides
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
J. C. F. von Schiller
This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
Robertson Davies
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Henrik Ibsen
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
Sophocles
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
Ugo Betti
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Molière
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
George Bernard Shaw
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R.C. Sherriff
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
Sophy Burnham
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
W Somerset Maugham