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"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law"

"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood"