Quotes by Playwrights - Page 25

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Joseph Addison
This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
William Shakespeare
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
David Garrick
At little more than kin and less than kind.
William Shakespeare
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
Forbear to judge for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
William Shakespeare
Are you good men and true?
William Shakespeare
The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands organs dimensions senses affections passions? fed with die same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed by the same means warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?
William Shakespeare
The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
R. B. Sheridan
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare
Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy.
William Shakespeare
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Miguel de Cervantes
A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!
William Shakespeare
O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Friedrich von Schiller
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
John Dennis
Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy.
William Shakespeare
Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare
To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.
Christopher Marlowe
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Love is above all else the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Want the mistress of invention.
Susanna Centlivre
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner
O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello
I write out of instinct.
Jerome Weidman
. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.
Brendan Behan
Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare
When love is not madness it is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Oscar Wilde
I follow my heart for I can trust it.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Sophocles
Though this be madness yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare
Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
William Davenant
That he is mad 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.
William Shakespeare
This was the most unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart.
William Shakespeare
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
Graham Greene
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
Aristophanes
Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.
Philip Massinger
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W Somerset Maugham
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
John Galsworthy
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Arthur Miller
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
W Somerset Maugham
It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder