Quotes by Playwrights - Page 60

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
William Saroyan
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
Eoin Colfer
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Oscar Wilde
We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.
Sophocles
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers
When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Update your belief! If necessary, throw it to the bin! Don’t exaggerate your belief! Remember that your belief is not that much important; the important thing is what the science, what the reason and the truth say! And remember also that with the earthquake of knowledge many beliefs have collapsed and again many more will collapse!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
Anton Chekhov
Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My gods dwell in temples made with hands.
Oscar Wilde
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
Elias Canetti
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
George Bernard Shaw
My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.
William Shakespeare
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S Eliot
In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.
Witold Gombrowicz
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Talent is an art of gaining admiration!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Talented person is talented everywhere.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
Larry Kramer
What's talent but the ability to get away with something?
Tennessee Williams
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
Daphne du Maurier
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
John Lyly
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.(Silence.)- I don't feel contempt.- No?- No. It's not your fault.- It's not your fault. That's all I ever hear, it's not your fault, it's an illness, it's not your fault, I know it's not my fault. You've told me that so often I'm beginning to think it is my fault.- It's not your fault.- I KNOW.- But you allow it.
Sarah Kane
No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wind likes making jokes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.
Robert Greene
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
William Shakespeare
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A country where a devil is sitting at the throne turns into a real hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
Mehmet Murat ildan
God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!
Arthur Miller
This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they were human eyes! It seemed as if they had been cut out of a living man and set there. Here there was not that lofty pleasure which comes over the soul at the sight of an artist's work, however terrible its chosen subject; here there was some morbid, anguished feeling. 'What is it?' the artist asked himself involuntarily. 'It's nature all the same, its living nature––why, then, this strangely unpleasant feeling? Or else the slavish, literal imitation of nature is already a trespass and seems like a loud, discordant cry?
Nikolai Gogol
Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
Carson McCullers
If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows
William Shakespeare
Who with the Devil tries to play fair,weaves the net of his own despair.Oh, smile; what’s a house between drunkards?
Derek Walcott
The Devil's out of fashion.
Dodie Smith
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.
Elias Zapple