Quotes by Playwrights - Page 24

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?
John Oliver Hobbes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
William Shakespeare
Men know life too early women know life too late.
Oscar Wilde
A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare
Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.
George M. Cohan
Our whole life is like a play.
Ben Jonson
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
His saying was: live and let live.
Friedrich von Schiller
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
W Somerset Maugham
If music be the food of love play on Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
William Shakespeare
I love humanity but I hate people.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Such as we are made of such we be.
William Shakespeare
Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T.S Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
George Bernard Shaw
We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
Thornton Wilder
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'Neill
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
William Shakespeare
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lister Sinclair
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Edward Bond
Every new time will give its law.
Maxim Gorky
A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Honoré de Balzac
I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.
Pierre Beaumarchais
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Miguel de Cervantes
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
Terence
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.
Henry Fielding