Quotes by Playwrights - Page 106

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
John Patrick Shanley
Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.
Kara Lee Corthron
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
What a fool honesty is.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
William Shakespeare
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.
Christopher Marlowe
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
Oscar Wilde
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.
Ben Jonson
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.
Knut Hamsun
Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.
Timothy Findley
And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write books promoting the cult of other great men! It's really very funny, and worth the price of admission! It will all end up with every village having his own great man - a lawyer, a novelist, and a polar explorer of immense stature! And the world will become wonderfully flat and simple and easy to master . . .
Knut Hamsun
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
Earl Lovelace
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many.
Mark Dunn
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
George Bernard Shaw
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .
William Shakespeare
For till the thunder and trumpet be,Soul may divide from body, but not weOne from another
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
Niall Williams
However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.
William Shakespeare
Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A thought that is almost beautiful – a thought that you speak not, but that you cherish within you at this moment, will irradiate you as though you were a transparent vase.
Maurice Maeterlinck
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
Tennessee Williams
Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of
William Shakespeare
Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust
John Webster
if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
Mikhail Bulgakov
Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.
Cormac McCarthy
WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.
Edward Bond
I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
Nick Enright
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said"Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'")digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, loveand I'm sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood.
Cormac McCarthy
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
Miguel de Unamuno
There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.
Graham Greene
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
Jeff Lindsay
Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
Emma Donoghue
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.
Jeff Lindsay
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
Jeff Lindsay
i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
Ntozake Shange
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!
Mehmet Murat ildan