Quotes by Playwrights - Page 11

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Seán O'Casey
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
George Bernard Shaw
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
James M. Barrie
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
Plautus
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
John Oliver Hobbes
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.
Euripides
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
To get it right be born with luck or else make it.
Ruth Gordon
I like reality. It tastes of bread.
Jean Anouilh
Reason is an emotion for the sexless.
Heathcote Williams
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Pierre Corneille
Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Jan de Hartog
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S Eliot
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith
We do not write as we want but as we can.
W Somerset Maugham
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann von Goethe
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Terence
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
When I'm good I'm very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.
Mae West
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
In uplifting get underneath.
George Ade
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Quality not quantity is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
George Bernard Shaw
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Aeschylus
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde