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Quotes by Dramatist
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"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."
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"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
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"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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