Quotes by Playwrights - Page 23

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Suit your manner to the man.
Terence
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
William Congreve
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Mitchell
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!
William Shakespeare
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
John Dryden
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
A good memory is needed once we have lied.
Corneille
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
As ill-luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
Love is often a fruit of marriage.
Molière
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold
Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.
Paul Geraldy
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.
Christopher Marlowe
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.
William Congreve
Love with men is not a sentiment but an idea.
Mme. de Girardin
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure and every betrayal which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
Paul Geraldy
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky
After all my erstwhile dear my no longer cherished need we say it was no love just because it perished?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill
Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.
John Dryden
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.
Edouard Bourdet
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Richard Hughes
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.
Anton Chekhov
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
Love is above all the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
J.M. Barrie
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Better to be happy than wise.
John Heywood