Quotes by Playwrights - Page 19

The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.
Françoise Sagan
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
William Shakespeare
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W Somerset Maugham
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.
John Lyly
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honoré de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
Honoré de Balzac
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
George Bernard Shaw
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
George Bernard Shaw
The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Le Roi Jones
The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
Fear is stronger than arms.
Aeschylus
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
Sophocles
If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honoré de Balzac
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
Thornton Wilder
There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.
Pierre Corneille
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
Euripides
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
Euripides
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.
Terence
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
George Bernard Shaw
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.
Channing Pollock
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
John Dryden
So many men so many opinions.
Terence
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw