Quotes by Playwrights - Page 83

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adams's Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parson's Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.
Henry Fielding
I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?
Hillary DePiano
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
Aristophanes
JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.
Oscar Wilde
CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.
William Shakespeare
DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon?
William Shakespeare
Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.
Edna Ferber
The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
Zakes Mda
Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits--just like an antiquary.''Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madame Couture.
Honoré de Balzac
Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.
Mary Chase
Quiet, everybody! Quiet! Well, Sir, we've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now, and we're certainly much obliged. Remember, all we ask is to just go along and be happy in our own sort of way. Of course we want to keep our health but as far as anything else is concerned, we'll leave it to You. Thank You.
Moss Hart
Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech
Colley Cibber
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.
David Mamet
It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!
Hillary DePiano
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.
Irvine Welsh
It is very wrong to kill any one[.]""Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde
If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Ginés, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules. We great unwashed of the outer world, on the coasts of new continents, though we might ourselves have behaved atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned to the frenzies of racial myth. Nice boys and not-so-nice boys took up the theme, put on the uniform, did the dirty work.
Thomas Keneally
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar Wilde
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Graham Greene
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Graham Greene
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
Oscar Wilde
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
Robert Greene
Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.
Grant Morrison
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw