Quotes by Playwrights - Page 31

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
Mary Delariviere Manley
Lord what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
Molière
The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
John Dryden
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
W Somerset Maugham
Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
W Somerset Maugham
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.
Christopher Marlowe
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
William Shakespeare
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.
John B. Buckstone
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Ben Jonson
There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.
John Lyly
AH the fat's in the fire.
John Marston
She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.
John Heywood
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
Robertson Davies
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
It is a long road from conception to completion.
Molière
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
That that is is.
William Shakespeare
Sweets to the sweet farewell!
William Shakespeare
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.
Marsha Norman
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.
Alan Jay Lerner
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
Ingmar Bergman
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Joseph Addison
The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Arnold Bennett
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.
William Saroyan
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.
Brendan Behan
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
William Shakespeare
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Faith is hidden household capital.
Johann von Goethe
Faith is ... knowing with your heart.
N. Richard Nash
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
Jean Racine
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen