Quotes by Playwrights - Page 125

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Oscar Wilde
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.
Athol Fugard
You can give up your present dream provided that you have created a new dream and especially a better one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dream like beautiful place is much more important than the beautiful place in a dream, because it is real!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And sometimes, and only in spring,a dove from the river's soft vale of lilieswill fly as close to you as trust,and a calm in the great reds of autumnwill, as often as you need, lie downbeside you, raising a brow you've knownabove the eyes of the only womanyou will ever have a need to dream or touch.
James Ragan
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don’t give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
Kathy Acker
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
William Shakespeare
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Daphne du Maurier
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Molière
I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body
Utpal Dutta
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
W Somerset Maugham
You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
Oscar Wilde
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Arne Garborg
In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th century with law in Portugal and England. In those European countries, where the idea of private property was becoming powerful, theft was punishable brutally. In England, even as late as 1740, a child could be hanged for stealing a rag of cotton. But in the Congo, communal life persisted. The idea of private property was a strange one, and thefts were punished with fines or various degrees of servitude. A Congolese leader told of the Portuguese legal codes asked a Portuguese once, teasingly, 'What is the penalty in Portugal for anyone who puts his feet on the ground?
Howard Zinn
Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.
Howard Zinn
Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
Knut Hamsun
If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.
David Belasco
Living like this is a full-time business.
Irvine Welsh
Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
Eoin Colfer
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
George Bernard Shaw
If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar Wilde
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
Oscar Wilde
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
Eric Gamalinda
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
Sheila Heti
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
John Gay
I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.
Sarah Ruhl
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
Irwin Shaw
Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.
Irvine Welsh
That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.
Carson McCullers
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.
Friedrich Schiller
There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.
Françoise Sagan
But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.
Jean Webster
It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?Bev
Louis Nowra
My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery...but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
Ama Ata Aidoo
His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history.
Jason Miller
Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.
Josefina López
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
Oscar Wilde
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.
Euripides
It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
Daphne du Maurier
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Cyrano de Bergerac
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
Eoin Colfer
Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
Honoré de Balzac