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"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"

"What's done can't be undone"

"Listen to many, speak to a few"

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice"

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better"

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

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words"

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

"Boldness be my friend"

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun"