Famous quotes by Dramatists

"A light heart lives long"

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

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

"Nothing succeeds like success"

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

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

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

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

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"

"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"

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

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

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

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

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

"Boldness be my friend"

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise"

"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"