Quotes by Playwrights - Page 8

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
George Bernard Shaw
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner
Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.
Ben Jonson
More in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!
William Shakespeare
What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
Maurice Maeterlinck
All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
Miguel de Cervantes
The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
George Bernard Shaw
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.
Tennessee Williams
I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer the beer stronger the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
Jean-Paul Sartre
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
She slept the sleep of the just.
Racine
To sleep! perchance to dream ay there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
William Shakespeare
O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.
William Shakespeare
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.
David Garrick
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
William Shakespeare
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Douglas Jerrold
I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
William Shakespeare
It is not alone what we do but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
Molière
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
The more we reduce the size of our world the more we shall be its master.
Jacinto Benavente
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann von Goethe
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
William Shakespeare
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
W Somerset Maugham
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
Ships are but boards sailors but men.
William Shakespeare
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
George Bernard Shaw
He was not of an age but for all time!
Ben Jonson
I count him lost who is lost to shame.
Plautus
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw
O shame! Where is they blush?
William Shakespeare
Sex - the poor man's polo.
Clifford Odets
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Mae West
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Menander
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
Sophocles
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Sophocles
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
I am my own heaven and hell!
J. C. F. von Schiller
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein