Quotes by Playwrights - Page 4

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'
Pierre Beaumarchais
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.
Terence
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
Sacha Guitry
A woman the more careful she is about her face is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.
William Shakespeare
Thy wish was father to that thought.
William Shakespeare
As you cannot do what you wish you should wish what you can do.
Terence
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Philippe Quinault
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
Euripides
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
Joseph Heller
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood
Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
William Shakespeare
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.
Honoré de Balzac
A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.
John Gay
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw
Westward Ho!
George Peele
When a man's willing and eager God joins in.
Aeschylus
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S Eliot
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Cervantes
I must be cruel Only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
T.S Eliot
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.
William Shakespeare
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Edward Moore
I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Ben Jonson
I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
O war! thou son of Hell!
William Shakespeare
War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
Robert Ardrey
War is the trade of kings.
John Dryden
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort at the least and death at the other end ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
Lillian Hellman
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Joseph Heller
They will conquer but they will not convince.
Miguel de Unamuno
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Alan Bennett
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's our dreams that keep us going that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.
Mary Chase
Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low an excellent thing in woman.
William Shakespeare
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder
I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.
Molière
Violence is just where kindness is vain.
Corneille
Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.
Mae West