Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"He that knew all that learning ever writ, knew only this - that he knew nothing yet"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"Women serve but to keep a man from better company"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him"

William Rowley, Dramatist

"Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this"

Thomas Holcroft, Dramatist

"It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them"

Paul Claudel, Dramatist

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them"

Dion Boucicault, Dramatist

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to!"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Man is a rational animal, who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about!"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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