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Quotes by Dramatist
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
222
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
193
"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."
182
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
173
"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
172
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
169
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
164
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
163
"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
163
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
143
"There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime."
112
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
Day,
109
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
107
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
105
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
104
"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."
100
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
99
"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
99
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
98
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
93
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
90
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
90
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
89
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