Quotes by Playwrights - Page 28

1 am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
Sir James M. Barrie
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.
August Strindberg
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.
Ruth Wolff
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.
Joanna Baillie
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
J. C. F. von Schiller
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Maureen Duffy
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Johann von Goethe
Happiness hates the timid!
Eugene O'Neill
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen
Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
Anton Chekhov
When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich von Schiller
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
James M. Barrie
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W Somerset Maugham
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
Plautus
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S Eliot
Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich von Schiller
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honoré de Balzac
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.
Alexander Ostrovsky
Foul whisperings are abroad.
William Shakespeare
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
Euripides
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
George Bernard Shaw
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.
Robertson Davies
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw