Quotes by Playwrights - Page 71

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
Jules Verne
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned."I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?
J.M. Barrie
People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god’s sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of majestyDies not alone, but like a gulf doth drawWhat's near it with it; or it is a massy wheelFixed on the summit of the highest mount,To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser thingsAre mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,Each small annexment, petty consequence,Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never aloneDid the king sigh, but with a general groan.
William Shakespeare
The aim of life is self-development
Oscar Wilde
When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun.
William Shakespeare
Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and displayed his slim, strong wrist and the lower part of his brown arm lightly covered with fine hairs. The sun shone goldly upon them. Something in Isabel's immobility attracted my attention, and I glanced at her. She was so still that you might have thought her hypnotized. Her breath was hurried. Her eyes were fixed on the sinewy wrist with its little golden hairs and on that long, delicate, but powerful hand, and I have never seen on a human countenance such a hungry concupiscence as I saw then on hers. It was a mask of lust. I would never have believed that her beautiful features could assume an expression of such unbridled sensuality. It was animal rather than human. The beauty was stripped from her face; the look upon it made her hideous and frightening. It horribly suggested the bitch in heat and I felt rather sick.
W Somerset Maugham
But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage.
William Shakespeare
I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.
Graham Greene
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.
Oscar Wilde
He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold, calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation. Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing, nourishing, inspiring source of life.
Stefan Zweig
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
Françoise Sagan
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
Nikolai Gogol
It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
Damon Galgut
I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam
Aaron Sorkin
If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.
James Bridie
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
Samuel Beckett
We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.
Dennis Potter
There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved."And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.
Eoin Colfer
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde
By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.
Euripides
What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!
Clifford Odets
Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
William Shakespeare
I'll find a day to massacre them allAnd raze their faction and their family,The cruel father and his traitorous sons,To whom I sued for my dear son's life,And make them know what 'tis to let a queenKneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".
Graham Greene
Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare
YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils,Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name,Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall,And welter in thy gore.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee.
Christopher Marlowe
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For here though death doth end their misery,I'll there begin their endless tragedy.
Thomas Kyd
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation
William Shakespeare
At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.
William Shakespeare
I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.
W Somerset Maugham
Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!
Cyrano de Bergerac
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
William Shakespeare
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.
Daphne du Maurier
How bad could things be if my hair was neat?
Jeff Lindsay
I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
Christy Hall
She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"For once Auto Correct got it right.
Christy Hall
I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.
Christy Hall
You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.
Christy Hall
Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.
Christy Hall
If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.
Christy Hall
Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.
Anton Chekhov
If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it!
Eugene O'Neill
You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.
Eugene O'Neill
Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth
Isaac Babel
We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Danger is hidden everywhere! You can’t always be physically ready for it, but you can always be ready mentally!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too
Mehmet Murat ildan
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.
A.A. Milne
Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.
Cormac McCarthy
The body is the garden of the soul.
Tony Kushner
Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!
Mehmet Murat ildan