Quotes by Playwrights - Page 21

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
All is well that ends well.
John Heywood
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
Making night hideous.
William Shakespeare
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's villainous news abroad.
William Shakespeare
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Honoré de Balzac
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
John Dryden
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.
David Garrick
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
William Congreve
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Music is another planet.
Alphonse Daudet
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
George Bernard Shaw
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.
Elizabeth Inchbald
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Luigi Pirandello
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair And the brow that's all furrowed and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers so toil-worn for me Oh God bless you and keep you Mother Machree.
Rida Johnson Young
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
Johann von Goethe
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
William Shakespeare
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
The weariest night the longest day sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
Baroness Orczy
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Thornton Wilder
What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh
Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Plautus