Playwright Quotes: Inspiring Words from Masterful Dramatists (Page 3)

"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection"

Terence, Playwright

"Moderation in all things"

Terence, Playwright

"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love"

Terence, Playwright

"I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad"

Terence, Playwright

"Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own"

Terence, Playwright

"I am human and let nothing human be alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"I am not young enough to know everything"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Everything matters. Time is precious"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"You can't always let people do their own thing"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

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