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Quotes by Dramatist

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

Douglas William Jerrold, English Dramatist

Happiness, Gardens, Strangers

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"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."

"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."

Jules Renard, French Dramatist

4

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mind, Suspicion

4

"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."

"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Destruction, Truth, Emotion, Regret

4

"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

Nation, states, United, World

4

"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."

"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Humorous, Calmness, Trouble, Behavior, Food

4

"Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men."

"Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men."

William Wycherley, English Dramatist

Men, Women, Honor, Scandal

4

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

4

"This too shall pass."

"This too shall pass."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Life, Regret, Truth, Power

4

"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."

"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Social, Society, Manners, Morals, Respectability

4

"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."

"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Apparel, Fashion, Man

4

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

4

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Argument, Arguments, Blind, Want

4

"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."

"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Burden, World, Sorrow, Heart

4

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Crime, Disgrace

4

"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."

"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."

Antonin Artaud, French Dramatist

Culture, Fatigue, Founding

4

"Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy."

"Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy."

August Strindberg, Swedish Dramatist

Nature, Progress, Energy, Evolution

4

"Dying people often become childish."

"Dying people often become childish."

Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

4

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

4

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

4

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Habit, Eating, Statistics

4

"Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus."

"Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Tragedy, Love, Jealousy, Conflict, Passion

4

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

4

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Being, Leisure, Wonder

4

"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

4

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

4

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Humorous, Conflict, Humor, Decision, Frustration

4

"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

Companionship, Value

4

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

4

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grief, Truth, Life, Regret

4

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

4

"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."

"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

4

"A thing well done is worth doing."

"A thing well done is worth doing."

Hugh Leonard, Irish Dramatist

4

"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."

"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."

Jules Renard, French Dramatist

4

"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

Edward Moore, English Dramatist

4

"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."

"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."

Douglas William Jerrold, English Dramatist

Man, Passion, Rain

4

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Inspirational, Individuality, Uniqueness, Self, Identity

4

"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."

"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

4

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Punishment, Vengeance

4

"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."

"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Soul, Love, Temptation, Heart

4

"Were there no women, men might live like gods."

"Were there no women, men might live like gods."

Thomas Dekker, English Dramatist

Men, Women, Gods

4

"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."

"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."

William Wycherley, English Dramatist

Books, Company, Conversation

4

"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."

"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

4

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

4

"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

4

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Jules Renard, French Dramatist

4

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Life, Gallantry, Grace

4

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."

William Wycherley, English Dramatist

4

"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."

"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Consideration, World

4

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Success, Failure

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