Quotes by Playwrights - Page 30

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Molière
It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann von Goethe
The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Sir Walter Scott
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not the services we render them but the services they render us that attaches people to us.
Labiche et Martin
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
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
Your wealth is where your friends are.
Plautus
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
John Dryden
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
Honoré de Balzac
Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.
Euripides
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.
A.A. Milne
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Terence
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas Jerrold
O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
Frailty thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
An amiable weakness.
R. B. Sheridan
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
My crown is called content a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.
Francis Beaumont
It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
Augusta Gregory
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Euripides
Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
Channing Pollock
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Jean Francois Regnard
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
Gwyn Thomas
Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.
William Shakespeare
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
Euripides
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
Joseph Addison
Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
Honoré de Balzac
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
William Saroyan
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
Joseph Addison
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw