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Quotes by Dramatist
"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."
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"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."
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"The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven."
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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."
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"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
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"You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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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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"But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering - curious as it may sound to you - is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity."
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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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