Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it and copy it"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"I am not sincere, even when I say I am not"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The bourgeois are other people"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Fame is a constant effort"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I grow to love it more and more"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke., Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"To advise is not to compel"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"There is something about poverty that smells like death"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

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