Famous quotes by Dramatists

"I dream, therefore I exist"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind"

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman, by the conventions of society, are born with different interests and different points of view"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented is the only pleasing Solitude"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

Richard Steele

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"

Marcel Pagnol, Dramatist

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a gossip"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

Richard Steele

"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"Those who know the least obey the best"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word"

David Mamet, Dramatist

"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember"

David Mamet, Dramatist

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"Deed, not words, shall speak me"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"The coward's weapon, poison"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"I find the medicine worse than the malady"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"There is no sinner like a young saint"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

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