Quotes by Playwrights - Page 161

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and stealstheir affection from her.
George Bernard Shaw
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
W Somerset Maugham
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
Oscar Wilde
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.
W Somerset Maugham
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
Oscar Wilde
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Oscar Wilde
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
Cormac McCarthy
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
Oscar Wilde
I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.
Horace Annesley Vachell
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Mae West
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
William Shakespeare
Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
J.M. Barrie
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Mae West
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West
Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
Mikhail Bulgakov
A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don’t have to be a poisonous snake yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...the Conservative party found him an embarrassment because he was apt to criticize the party leader in public, the Liberals naturally wanted to defeat him, and the newspapers were out to get him. It was a dreadful campaign on his part, for he lost his head, bullied his electors when he should have wooed them, and got into a wrangle with a large newspaper, which he threatened to sue for libel. He was defeated on election day so decisively that it was obviously a personal rather than a political rejection.
Robertson Davies
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In researching this book, I quickly discovered a surprising thing about the 1960s: the decade was not nearly as radical as we've been led to believe. In fact, the upheaval was really confined to a very narrow stratum of society. For the overwhelming majority of Americans, the 1960s was a conservative decade.
Jonathan Leaf
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.
David Henry Wilson
Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I also hold a settling of questions by the referendum to be an unsatisfactory procedure, because there are no simple political questions which can be answered merely by Yes and No. The masses are also more prone even than Parliaments to be led away by heterodox opinions, and to be swayed by vigorous ranting. It is impossible to formulate a wise internal or external policy in a popular assembly.
Theodor Herzl
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.
John Webster
James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.
Peter Morgan
Here, the mother country is satisfied to keep some feudal rulers in her pay; there, dividing and ruling she has created a native bourgeoisie, sham from beginning to end; elsewhere she has played a double game: the colony is planted with settlers and exploited at the same time. Thus Europe has multiplied divisions and opposing groups, has fashioned classes and sometimes even racial prejudices, and has endeavoured by every means to bring about and intensify the stratification of colonised societies. Fanon hides nothing: in order to fight against us the former colony must fight against itself: or, rather, the two struggles form part of a whole.
Jean-Paul Sarte
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse
T.S Eliot
Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The talent to whip up the voters' worst passions while you seem to call on their highest instincts, and the sense to stay wrapped in the flag. That's politics: I'll take the simple life.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.
Peter Morgan
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.
Howard Zinn
How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!
Howard Zinn
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires
Tobsha Learner
There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
Sinclair Lewis
Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.
Peter Morgan
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.
Howard Zinn
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Václav Havel
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
Aeschylus
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.
T.S Eliot
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Maxim Gorky
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
Oscar Wilde
Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes destructive of that, then it is patriotic to dissent and to criticize - to do what we always praise and call heroic when we look upon the dissenters and critics in totalitarian countries who dare to speak out.
Howard Zinn
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
Graham Greene
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
Aristophanes
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
George Bernard Shaw
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.
Howard Zinn
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.
Bertolt Brecht