Quotes by Playwrights - Page 14

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Thornton Wilder
There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.
Pierre Corneille
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
Euripides
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
Euripides
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.
Terence
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
George Bernard Shaw
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.
Channing Pollock
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
John Dryden
So many men so many opinions.
Terence
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herb Gardner
Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
Pierre Corneille
Time is the stuff life's made of.
David Belasco
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Time is change transformation evolution.
Isaac L. Peretz
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare
Time itself is an element.
Johann von Goethe
A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.
Algernon Swinburne
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
Henry Fielding
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann von Goethe
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
Johann von Goethe
Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
Economy is the thief of time.
Ethel Watts Mumford
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett
Seize the hour.
Sophocles
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
Johann von Goethe
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
Herb Gardner
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold