Quotes by Playwrights - Page 27

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
Johann von Goethe
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Sir Walter Scott
Every man is the son of his own works.
Cervantes
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
Ruth Gordon
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
Alice Childress
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann von Goethe
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Gertrude Stein
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter.
Alice Childress
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave-and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
Alice Childress
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
Heaven for climate hell for company.
James M. Barrie
The cunning livery of hell.
William Shakespeare
Help me Cassius or I sink!
William Shakespeare
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Richard Hovey
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Terence
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Françoise Sagan
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
W Somerset Maugham
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.
William Shakespeare
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Miguel de Cervantes
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
Douglas Jerrold
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
John Heywood
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
William Shakespeare
Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
Euripides
We love without reason and without reason we hate.
Jean-Frangois Regnard
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
Ben Jonson
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Euripides
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.
Johann von Goethe
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Pierre Corneille
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
Sophocles
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann von Goethe
The will of man is his happiness.
J. C. F. von Schiller
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Zona Gale
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Anne Ridler
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac