Quotes by Playwrights - Page 186

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.
Jean Webster
Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit
Jean Racine
Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
Wole Soyinka
Your neck. I want to kiss it.
Edmond Rostand
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
William Shakespeare
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
Honoré de Balzac
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
Françoise Sagan
Goodness had nothing to do with it.
Mae West
Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
William Shakespeare
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
Thomas Middleton
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
Anton Chekhov
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
Gertrude Stein
We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.
Daphne du Maurier
Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!
William Shakespeare
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
Cormac McCarthy
What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
W Somerset Maugham
How do I love thee? wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally...obviously eternally-that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately." "Oh, I would never." Orion assured her. "Ladies don't look for birthmarks; that is work for jolly fellows like the Goodly Beast and myself. Ladies, like Miss Short, do enough by simply existing. They exude beauty, and that is enough." "I am not exuding anything." said Holly, through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins." Holly gripped the wheel tightly. "I'm going to be sick. Did he just say pastel blue?" "And dolphins, little ones," said Foaly.
Eoin Colfer
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.
William Shakespeare
thus with a kiss I die
William Shakespeare
La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
Fay Weldon
You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater than they really are, and all seem superior to us. This operation of the mind is quite natural: we so continually feel our own imperfections, and fancy we perceive in others the qualities we do not possess, attributing to them also all that we enjoy ourselves, that by this process we form the idea of a perfect, happy man,—a man, however, who only exists in our own imagination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.
Euripides
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.
Dodie Smith
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?
Kara Lee Corthron
You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was measured by its happiness, but now he seemed to gather strength as he realised that it might be measured by something else. Happiness mattered as little as pain. They came in, both of them, as all the other details of his life came in, to the elaboration of the design. He seemed for an instant to stand above the accidents of his existence, and he felt that they could not affect him again as they had done before. Whatever happened to him now would be one more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be.
W Somerset Maugham
Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.
Alan Bennett
Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness begins.
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!
Rainis
Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
Eugene O'Neill
To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?
W Somerset Maugham
I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.
Samuel Beckett
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.
Thornton Wilder
I hate you. I wish you was dead."Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down in her husband's chair; and as she thought of her desire to love the friendless, crippled boy and her eager wish that he should love her--she was a barren woman and, even though it was clearly God's will that she should be childless, she could scarcely bear to look at little children sometimes, her heart ached so--the tears rose to her eyes and one by one, slowly, rolled down her cheeks. Philip watched her in amazement. She took out her handkerchief, and now she cried without restraint. Suddenly Philip realised that she was crying because of what he had said, and he was sorry. He went up to her silently and kissed her. It was the first kiss he had ever given herwithout being asked. And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W Somerset Maugham
The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
Jean Webster
The more people I meet the happier I become.
Samuel Beckett
I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-René Le Sage
Move on. Be well. Go for it!
Sally Stubbs
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
Alan Bennett
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
Emma Donoghue
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W Somerset Maugham
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth
William Shakespeare
She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.
Graham Greene