Quotes by Playwrights - Page 36

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
Henrik Ibsen
Colors speak all languages.
Joseph Addison
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is his clothes.
William Shakespeare
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S Eliot
All will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes
The people are the city.
William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.
Alfred de Musset
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.
Samuel Woodworth
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.
William Saroyan
Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
Cervantes
Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.
Alan Jay Lerner
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill
He was not of an age but for all time.
Ben Jonson
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
William Shakespeare
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.
Mary Chase
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Johann von Goethe
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann von Goethe
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
George Bernard Shaw
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noël Coward
When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Oscar Wilde
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
T.S Eliot
Fortune favours the bold.
Terence
Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
God befriend us as our cause is just!
William Shakespeare
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
A cat may look at a king.
John Heywood
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
George Bernard Shaw
To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.
William Shakespeare
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
Robertson Davies
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain his difference.
J.B. Priestley
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
Brendan Behan
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
God helps the brave.
Friedrich von Schiller