Quotes by Playwrights - Page 5

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures but a compromise can usually be found.
Molière
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.
Thornton Wilder
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
Joseph Addison
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles
Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.
Tom Stoppard
My man's as true as steel.
William Shakespeare
All great truths began as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
John Dryden
I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
Sir Walter Scott
When praying does no good insurance does help.
Bertolt Brecht
True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honoré de Balzac
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
William Shakespeare
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
William Shakespeare
I am fevered with the sunset I am fretful with the bay For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
George S. Kaufman
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
William Shakespeare
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
Oscar Wilde
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.
John Dryden
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
There's a time for all things.
William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint.
William Shakespeare
O call back yesterday bid time return.
William Shakespeare
Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
Make use of time let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
Time was made for slaves.
John B. Buckstone
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly
Much rain wears the marble.
William Shakespeare
One sits down first one thinks afterwards.
Jean Cocteau
Time is a kindly god.
Sophocles
I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.
Tennessee Williams
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
George Ade
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Miguel de Cervantes
A penny for your thought.
John Lyly
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
W Somerset Maugham
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
Joanna Baillie
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann von Goethe
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
William Shakespeare
April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay