Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Dramatists - Page 10

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Live or die, sink or swim.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Say, the next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will you?

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

You can't win every week.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Only entropy comes easy.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.

How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.