Quotes by Playwrights - Page 17

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.
Mae West
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
In uplifting get underneath.
George Ade
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Quality not quantity is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
George Bernard Shaw
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Aeschylus
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Carlo Goldoni
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizner
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
Aeschylus
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
Most people do not pray they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
William Shakespeare
Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Sir James M. Barrie
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
George Bernard Shaw
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett
Love me love my dog.
John Heywood
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.
Molière
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer