Famous quotes by Dramatists

"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

"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"All for one, one for all, that is our device"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible, working as no one else ever works"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

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