Quotes by Playwrights - Page 22

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
Molière
As full of spirit as the month of May.
William Shakespeare
The ides of March are come.
William Shakespeare
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides
Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
W Somerset Maugham
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
Maurice Baring
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
Men are men they needs must err.
Euripides
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
Plautus
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honoré de Balzac
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
William Shakespeare
A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
William Shakespeare
Men become old but they never become good.
Oscar Wilde
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
Pierre Beaumarchais
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Françoise Sagan
As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison
Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
Mae West
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
Dion Boucicault
God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W Somerset Maugham
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
R. B. Sheridan
When women go wrong men go right after them.
Mae West
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Beaumont and Fletcher
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?
Nicholas Rowe
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
Kenneth Koch
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen
Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.
Channing Pollock
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Langdon Mitchell
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Honoré de Balzac
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honoré de Balzac
A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
Anton Chekhov