Quotes by Playwrights - Page 9

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
George Bernard Shaw
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
J. C. F. von Schiller
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
John Gay
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
Augusta Gregory
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugène Ionesco
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
All men love themselves.
Plautus
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
William Shakespeare
I am because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude Stein
I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
Françoise Sagan
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.
Marie Leneru
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Gertrude Stein
He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.
Philip Massinger
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Plautus
I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Arnold Bennett
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honoré de Balzac
They conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
Edna Ferber
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
Luigi Pirandello
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.
Jean Anouilh
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.
Bertolt Brecht
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe
I am what I am so take me as I am!
Johann von Goethe
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.
Jean Kerr
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
Noël Coward
My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
My closest relation is myself.
Terence
Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
J. C. F. von Schiller
I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich von Schiller