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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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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
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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"Votes should be weighed not counted"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
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"We love peace, but not peace at any price"
Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
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"A liar is always lavish of oaths"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
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"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
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"Praise the bridge that carried you over"
George Colman, Dramatist
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"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue"
Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist
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"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"What is past is prologue"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
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