top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Dramatist
"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
6
"The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write."
6
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
6
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
6
"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
6
"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
6
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby,
6
"It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children."
6
"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
6
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
6
"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
6
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
6
"Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes."
6
"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
6
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
6
"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
6
"Laws of silence don't work. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out."
6
"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
6
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
6
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
6
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
6
"As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
6
"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
6
"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
6
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
5
"Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"
5
"Courage mounteth with occasion."
5
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
5
bottom of page