Quotes by Playwrights - Page 6

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen
There's never an end for the sea.
Samuel Beckett
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
T.S Eliot
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
William Congreve
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.
Eugene O'Neill
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Eugene O'Neill
Past and to come seems best things present worst.
William Shakespeare
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.
Arthur Miller
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
Let us live today.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
Louis Anspacher
Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.
Euripides
Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."
Henry Fielding
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
Our life is like some vast lake that is slowly filling with the stream of our years. As the waters creep surely upward the landmarks of the past are one by one submerged. But there shall always be memory to lift its head above the tide until the lake is overflowing.
Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.
J. C. F. von Schiller
What's past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de Cervantes
We can never go back again that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again and that sense of fear of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
Daphne du Maurier
Past: Our cradle not our prison and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration not imitation for continuation not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
Sir James M. Barrie
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."
Anton Chekhov
The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
Pride avarice and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The future is only the past again entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Thornton Wilder
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
I believe the future is only the past again entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
William Shakespeare
What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.
Euripides
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings easily given to violence that we get along together because we must more than because we want to and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago that reason's realm is small that we never have been and never shall be created equal that if the human being is perfectible he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
Robert Ardrey
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.
Jean Giraudoux
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Douglas Jerrold
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
George Bernard Shaw
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.
Noël Coward
Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
Paddy Chayefsky