Quotes by Playwrights - Page 7

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade
The finer impulse of our nature.
Friedrich von Schiller
Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.
John Heywood
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
William Shakespeare
Conciseness is the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.
Christopher Marlowe
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Ben Jonson
Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Euripides
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make hay while the sun shines.
Miguel de Cervantes
She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
Jean Cocteau
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
Johann von Goethe
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann von Goethe
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
W Somerset Maugham
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
Euripides
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
William Shakespeare
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
Jean Anouilh
You are in some brown study.
John Lyly
We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Fear is stronger than arms.
Aeschylus
These blessed candles of the night.
William Shakespeare
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
It is a tiresome way of speaking when you should despatch the business to beat about the bush.
Plautus
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson