Quotes by Playwrights - Page 15

The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Johann von Goethe
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
Pietro Aretino
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
All is well that ends well.
John Heywood
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
Making night hideous.
William Shakespeare
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's villainous news abroad.
William Shakespeare
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Honoré de Balzac
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
John Dryden
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.
David Garrick
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
William Congreve
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Music is another planet.
Alphonse Daudet
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
George Bernard Shaw
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti