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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
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"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"
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"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"But men are men the best sometimes forget."
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"Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid."
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"Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements ofbeauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, thewhole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenlywe find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of theplay. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonderof the spectacle enthralls us."
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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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