Quotes by Playwrights - Page 13

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
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
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
William Shakespeare
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
Harold Pinter
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Nikolai Gogol
One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.
John Galsworthy
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
Daphne du Maurier
Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Rolf Hochhuth
The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.
Françoise Sagan
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
William Shakespeare
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W Somerset Maugham
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.
John Lyly
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honoré de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
Honoré de Balzac
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
George Bernard Shaw
The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Le Roi Jones
The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
Sophocles
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honoré de Balzac
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay