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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
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"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,- For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
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"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."
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"Cressida: My lord, will you be true?Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,I with great truth catch mere simplicity;Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.Fear not my truth: the moral of my witIs "plain and true"; there's all the reach of it."
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"He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart, his passport shall be made and crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship, to die with us."
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"Experience is a question of instinct about life."
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"Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known."
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"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful."
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"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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"I drink to the general joy o' the whole table." Macbeth."
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"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."
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"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder."
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"It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it."
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"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"Ugh!' snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, 'this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Government look to it?"
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
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"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."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it."
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"Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!"
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"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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