Famous quotes by Playwrights

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"

"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets"

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"

"While we teach, we learn"

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness"

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures"

"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing"

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life"

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones"

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over"

"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible"

"Those that vow the most are the least sincere"

"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature"

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed"

"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"

"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Be just before you are generous"

"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"

"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest"

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you"

"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so"

"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"

"Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine"

"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer"

"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"