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Quotes by Playwright
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
51
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
50
"Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked."
50
"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
49
"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man."
49
"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
47
"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy."
47
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
46
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
46
"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
46
"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them."
46
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
46
"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."
46
"It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"
45
"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
45
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
45
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
45
"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."
45
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
45
"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."
Past,
45
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
44
"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
44
"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."
44
"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
44
"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
44
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
44
"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."
44
"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
44
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
43
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
43
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."
43
"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today."
43
"If you accept your limitations you go beyond them."
43
"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."
43
"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."
43
"The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain."
43
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