Quotes by Playwrights - Page 12

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizner
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
Aeschylus
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
Most people do not pray they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
William Shakespeare
Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Sir James M. Barrie
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
George Bernard Shaw
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett
Love me love my dog.
John Heywood
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.
Molière
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Franchise Sagan
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.
John Dryden
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honoré de Balzac
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
T.S Eliot
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
J. M. Synge
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T.S Eliot
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T.S Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S Eliot
Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.
John Heywood
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw