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Quotes by Dramatist

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."

"Never durst a poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink was tempered with love's sighs."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"There's a time for all things."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."

"And thereby hangs a tale."

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."

"To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first."

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

"Friendship is constant in all other thingsSave in the office and affairs of love.Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.Let every eye negotiate for itself,And trust no agent; for beauty is a witchAgainst whose charms faith melteth into blood."

"It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell."

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
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