Famous quotes by Dramatists

"A light heart lives long"

"Nothing succeeds like success"

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

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

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

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

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

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

"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!"

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

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

"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"

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

"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"

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal"

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

"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"

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

"This above all; to thine own self be true"

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"If music be the food of love, play on"