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Quotes by Dramatist
"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
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"So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination."
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
Work,
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"Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves."
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
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"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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"It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
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"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death."
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
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"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
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"Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
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"Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat.Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats."
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"Only the shallow know themselves."
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessA d my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
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"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."
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"A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves."
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"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
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"I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
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