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Quotes by Dramatist
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"Gossip is more popular than literature."
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"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
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"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
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"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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