Quotes by Playwrights - Page 18

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Franchise Sagan
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.
John Dryden
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honoré de Balzac
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
T.S Eliot
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
J. M. Synge
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T.S Eliot
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T.S Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S Eliot
Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.
John Heywood
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
William Shakespeare
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
Harold Pinter
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Nikolai Gogol
One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.
John Galsworthy
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Johann von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
Daphne du Maurier
Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Rolf Hochhuth