Famous quotes by Dramatists

"A light heart lives long"

"Nothing succeeds like success"

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

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

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

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

"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"

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

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

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

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

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

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

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

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise"

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

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal"

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place"

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

"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of"

"They do not love that do not show their love"

"The valiant never taste of death but once"

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

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one"

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse"

"An overflow of good converts to bad"

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages"

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue"