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"

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

"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"

"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"

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

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

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

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

"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"

"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"

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes"

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget"

"Brevity is the soul of wit"

"Boldness be my friend"

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late"

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"