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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there"
Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist
Clare Boothe Luce
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"Our swords shall play the orators for us"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place, for where we are is hell, and where hell is there must we ever be"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"Goodness is beauty in the best estate"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Failure has gone to his head"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"Art is science made clear"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
Wilson Mizner
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"For even in dreams, a good deed is not lost"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist
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"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of"
Hugh Leonard, Dramatist
Hugh Leonard
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"Love is a peculiar thing"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Murder begins where self-defense ends"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Dying people often become childish"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Every game ever invented by mankind is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"A dollar saved is a quarter earned"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Truth made you a traitor, as it often does in a time of scoundrels"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
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"I understand your new play is full of single entendres"
George S. Kaufman, Dramatist
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"I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra"
George S. Kaufman, Dramatist
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"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
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"Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier"
Lillian Hellman, Dramatist
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