Playwright Quotes: Inspiring Words from Masterful Dramatists (Page 2)

"All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen"

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found"

"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise"

John Webster, Playwright

"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Impropriety is the soul of wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"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"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Its safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"So many men, so many opinions"

Terence, Playwright

"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right"

Terence, Playwright

"She ne'er was really charming till she died"

Terence, Playwright

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