Quotes by Playwrights - Page 143

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
John Galsworthy
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Oscar Wilde
I have loved him too much not to hate
Jean Racine
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.
Stefan Zweig
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Oscar Wilde
Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.
Diane Samuels
The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder."But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it."Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad."It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper."He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room.
W Somerset Maugham
He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart, his passport shall be made and crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship, to die with us.
William Shakespeare
Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.
Maurice Maeterlinck
It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
George Bernard Shaw
I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in my body... Yes, you've robbed me of everything: the laurels of glory, the roses of love! But there's one thing you can't take away from me. When I go to meet God this evening, and doff my hat before the lofty gates, my salute will sweep the blue threshold of heaven, because I'll still have one thing intact, without a stain, something that I'll take with me in spite of you: My white plume.
Edmond Rostand
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
There is no avoidance in delay.
Aeschylus
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage
J.M. Barrie
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
Cormac McCarthy
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.
John Patrick Shanley
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.
Reginald Rose
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthy
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
A.A. Milne
For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing.""Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing.""Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom.""Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.
J.M. Barrie
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
W Somerset Maugham
We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person
Thomas Amo
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...
Sarah Kane
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
Claudia Rankine
A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.
Luigi Pirandello
...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
Luigi Pirandello
For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.
Yukio Mishima
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
William Shakespeare
Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe
I know a lie when I hear one.
Adrian Mitchell
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W Somerset Maugham
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.
Cormac McCarthy
A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!
Lorraine Hansberry
Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest realisation in one’s life is this: You don’t have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan