Quotes by Playwrights - Page 32

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
Aristophanes
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold
When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.
William Shakespeare
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
J. C. F. von Schiller
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Johann von Goethe
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field
No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
George Ade
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann von Goethe
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
Man errs as long as he struggles.
Johann von Goethe
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.
Ben Jonson
He had a face like a benediction.
Miguel de Cervantes
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -
Christopher Marlowe
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
Let weakness learn meekness.
A. C. Swinburne
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
William Shakespeare
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Thornton Wilder
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.
Plautus
Evil events from evil causes spring.
Aristophanes
To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Françoise Sagan
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.
Arnold Bennett
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
Johann von Goethe
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
Joanna Baillie
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.
Mae West
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd And high enthusiasm warm'd?
Joanna Baillie
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea.
William Shakespeare
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw
We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
Robert Morley
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides
Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde