Playwright Quotes

William Shakespeare

Miguel de Cervantes

Anton Chekhov

Bertolt Brecht

George Bernard Shaw

Henrik Ibsen

Terence

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholem Aleichem

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Miguel de Cervantes

You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.

George M. Cohan

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

He who talks much cannot always talk well.

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today!

Jonathan Larson

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

Louise Closser Hale

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Craig Johnson (author)

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.

The duty of a scientist is not to distort the manifestations of natural phenomena in the light of some more or less popular idea. His duty is to explain facts.

Émile Cammaerts

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

Paul Fleischman

At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it.

Augusta, Lady Gregory

We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.