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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Age is like love, it cannot be hid"
Thomas Dekker, Dramatist
Thomas Dekker
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"Back home, everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here, but it sounds better in French"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"You can only predict things after they have happened"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Living is abnormal"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"The critic should describe, and not prescribe"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"Why can't a woman be more like a man?"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"Men die, but an idea does not"
Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist
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"A civil servant doesn't make jokes"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"We have not the time to take our time"
Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist
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"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"How good is God! How sweet his yoke!"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be if circumstances do not admit of it"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"According as the man is, so must you humour him"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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"Mum's the word"
George Colman, Dramatist
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"And what 's impossible can't be, and never, never comes to pass"
George Colman, Dramatist
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"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'"
George Colman, Dramatist
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"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love"
Jean Racine, Dramatist
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