Quotes by Playwrights - Page 34

You have to learn to do everything even to die.
Gertrude Stein
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
William Shakespeare
No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
William Shakespeare
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Fedirico Garcia Lorca
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
Euripides
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
William Shakespeare
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Corneille
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Friedrich von Schiller
Custom is the law of fools.
Sir John Vanbrugh
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I must be cruel only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Lillian Hellman
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Plautus
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Robertson Davies
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
Jean Kerr
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
Miguel de Cervantes
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
Oscar Wilde
Crime like virtue has its degrees.
Racine
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
August Strindberg
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Swinburne
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W Somerset Maugham
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Molière
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Johann von Goethe
Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Pierre Corneille
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Plautus
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
Terence
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
Sir James M. Barrie
Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison
Courage is its own reward.
Plautus