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Quotes by Dramatist
"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
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"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
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"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
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"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
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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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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
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"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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"As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn't have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show."
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"When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
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"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
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"Sometime [Queen Mab] driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,Of healths five fathom deep; and then anonDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or twoAnd sleeps again."
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