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Quotes by Dramatist
"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
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"ROMEOThere is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
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"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."
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"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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"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."
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
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"He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!"
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"For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates."
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"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
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"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
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