Quotes by Playwrights - Page 47

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.
Robert Greene
Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body.
Irvine Welsh
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh you dear companionsElectric bells of the stations song of the reapersButcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streetsCavalry of bridges nights livid with alcoholThe cities I've seen lived like mad women(The Voyager)
Pierre Albert-Birot
Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.
Patrick Hamilton
Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?
Robertson Davies
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
James Kirkwood Jr.
For sensible men I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home. The fourth krater is not mine any more - it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.
Eubulus
One more drink and I'll be under the host.
Mae West
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
Oscar Wilde
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
William Shakespeare
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot have too many aconites. They cost, as I said before, about fifty shillings a thousand. A thousand will make a brave splash of colour, which lasts a month. If you can afford ten thousand, you are mad not to buy them. There are so many exciting places you can put them. . . in the hollow of a felled tree, by the border of a pond, in a circle round a statue, or immediately under your window, so that you can press your nose against the glass, when it is too cold to go out, and stare at them, and remember that spring is on its way.
Beverley Nichols
If you are a sensitive person, you don’t give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers – these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos – excessively deserve to live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee;Fairies use flower for their charactery.
William Shakespeare
Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired: he lies like a hyacinth on the sofa, and I worship him. (letter from Oscar Wilde, 1892 - quoted from Love in a dark time by Colm Toibin)
Oscar Wilde
Passion is a rare flower that grows on the precipice of death. A few snatch it, and the rest are like an ox chewing its cud in a field.
Saunders Lewis
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
August Strindberg
You see we do, yet see you but our handsAnd this the bleeding business they have done:Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful
William Shakespeare
Within the infant rind of this small flowerPoison hath residence and medicine power.For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant,Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.(Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your body. But if you taste it, you die. There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs—good and evil. When evil is dominant, death soon kills the body like cancer.)
William Shakespeare
Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.
Anton Chekhov
What is the use of the colon? What is a colon? Generally it opens onto an explanation, but it is always done with the help of an interruption. It can be said that the colon is not the period, it is the period of the period, the canceling of the period. It is a moment mute and marked; it is the most delicate tattoo of the text. It is also in place of, instead of, everything that would be causal. For example, when we read: "It's simply that: secret." "Secret," is a sentence, it is the shortest sentence perhaps. But it is a sentence in one word. It is a sentence that is secret and that at the same time says its name. One could invert and say: "Secret: it is simply that." This is secret, the secret is the secret of this, it is a word which makes infinite sense all by itself, it is a sentence which performs the secret itself [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989]
Hélène Cixous
This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.)We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other.
Hélène Cixous
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
William Shakespeare
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Franz Grillparzer
I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?
Jeff Lindsay
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so.
Laura Harrington
He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out the tune like it is a tale he is telling her, until he feels her body relax, until he feels her falling into sleep. He sings to let her know he’s there, to stay anchored to the earth, to keep from laughing or crying in amazement that he is lying with Alice in his arms, he sings as if music could keep her alive, as if music could feed her soul, as if music could weave a protective spell around her to survive these days and these weeks and these months and these years, he sings as if he could give her a piece of himself, which will ring inside of her like a bell, like a promise, like hope whenever she needs him; and in his singing, he promises her every single thing he can think of, and more.
Laura Harrington
...are you happy?""I am content.""What is the difference?""Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive--coming perhaps once in a life-time--and approaching ecstasy.""Not a continuous thing, like contentment?""No, not a continuous thing. But there are, after all, degrees of happiness.
Daphne du Maurier
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning “between the wolf and the dog” because the sky is so deep blue and spooky or whatever that you can’t tell what’s what. Is that a wolf on that hill or a dog? A man or a monkey? A saint or the devil?
Adam Rapp
I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.
Samuel Beckett
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.
William Shakespeare
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
Tennessee Williams
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
Tony Harrison