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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Tennessee Williams
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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
Tom Stoppard
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"When love is not madness, it is not love"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Tennessee Williams
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"The crime, and not the scaffold, makes the shame"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
Pierre Corneille
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"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching"
Alan Bennett, Dramatist
Alan Bennett
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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
Tennessee Williams
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"We're actors. We're the opposite of people"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
Tom Stoppard
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"It is the crime, not the scaffold, which is the disgrace"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
Pierre Corneille
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"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach"
Antonin Artaud, Dramatist
Antonin Artaud
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"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
William Shakespeare
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"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
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"Satire is what closes on Saturday night"
George S. Kaufman, Dramatist
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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"Everything popular is wrong"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"Votes should be weighed, not counted"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
Anton Chekhov
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"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Oscar Wilde
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"One drink is too many for me, and a thousand not enough"
Brendan Behan, Dramatist
Brendan Behan
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"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
Zora Neale Hurston
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