Famous quotes by Dramatists

"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"To save all, we must risk all"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Time is the longest distance between two places"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"To be free is to have achieved your life"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"When I stop working, the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out, an death's the other"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Luxury is the wolf at the door, and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"For time is the longest distance between two places"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"All good art is an indiscretion"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

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