top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Dramatist
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
5
"Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
5
"For this new-married man approaching here,Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'dYour well defended honour, you must pardonFor Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--Being criminal, in double violationOf sacred chastity and of promise-breachThereon dependent, for your brother's life,--The very mercy of the law cries outMost audible, even from his proper tongue,'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE."
5
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
5
"Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will 'schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. Poison and treason are the hands of sin; Ay, and the targets to put off the shame. Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear."
5
"The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks."
5
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
5
"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."
5
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
5
"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
5
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
5
"Like madness is the glory of this life."
5
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
5
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
5
"Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage."
5
"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
5
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
5
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
5
"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
5
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
5
bottom of page