Quotes by Playwrights - Page 35

Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
The coward despairs.
Euripides
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Sir James M. Barrie
To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
Euripides
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
None but the brave deserve the fair.
John Dryden
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.
Molière
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
Jean Anouilh
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
God helps the brave.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
Audacity has made kings.
Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
John Dryden
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
T.S Eliot
I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.
Jean Giraudoux
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness glad of other men's good content with my harm.
William Shakespeare
Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.
Haddon Chambers
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W Somerset Maugham
Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
William Shakespeare
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
Michael Frayn
The only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
Johann von Goethe
One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.
Euripides
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
Francis Beaumont
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
Philip Barry
They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.
Mae West
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
W Somerset Maugham
It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.
Euripides
One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too
Theresa Helburn
If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein