Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Dramatists - Page 2

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.

Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks-poor creature! what is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside.

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

Love and a red rose can't be hid.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.

He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth; One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.

Love is two minds without a single thought.

The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly....The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life....Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Truth is no road to fortune.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.