Quotes by Playwrights - Page 33

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.
Aristophanes
He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T.S Eliot
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S Eliot
Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Miguel de Cervantes
We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.
Brendan Behan
Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W Somerset Maugham
To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann von Goethe
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
The better part of valour is discretion.
William Shakespeare
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Plautus
Now is the Winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.
Friedrich von Schiller
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S Eliot
This too shall pass.
William Shakespeare
Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes
He will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
Euripides
Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?
Christopher Fry
You can only predict things after they've happened.
Eugène Ionesco
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
Sophocles
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
Anna Deavere Smith
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Molière
Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
Ben Jonson
Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
I am dying Egypt dying.
William Shakespeare
To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus