Quotes by Playwrights - Page 3

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Gertrude Stein
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Maurice Maeterlinck
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
Jean Anouilh
Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honoré de Balzac
The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
Cast away care he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day nor can he buy tomorrow.
Thomas Dekker
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
Arnold Bennett
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Henry Arthur Jones
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas Jerrold
The world is a beautiful book but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.
Honoré de Balzac
Busy people are never busybodies.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.
Theresa Helburn
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
Tennessee Williams
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
George Ade
I work as my father drank.
George Bernard Shaw
Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
Garson Kanin
Work is more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.
Garson Kanin
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
David Hare
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Baptiste Racine
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
William Shakespeare
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.
William Shakespeare
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Terence
My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Mum is the word.
Miguel de Cervantes
Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
Joanna Baillie
O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.
William Shakespeare
She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
William Shakespeare
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
A hard beginning makes a good ending.
John Heywood
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Oscar Wilde
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Fraily thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich von Schiller
Such Polly are your sex - part truth part fiction Some thought much whim and all contradiction.
Richard Savage
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
Euripides
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve