Famous quotes by Dramatists

"A light heart lives long"

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

"Nothing succeeds like success"

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool"

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens"

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment"

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age"

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport"

"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy"

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"

"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking"

"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past"

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom"

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance"

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world"

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise"

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun"

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives"

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything"

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man"

"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life"

"Let no such man be trusted"

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course"

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent"