Famous quotes by Dramatists

"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to"

Dodie Smith, Dramatist

"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring"

Dodie Smith, Dramatist

"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means"

Dodie Smith, Dramatist

"I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life"

Dodie Smith, Dramatist

"Intelligence is nothing without delight"

Paul Claudel, Dramatist

"Love and a red rose can't be hid"

Thomas Holcroft, Dramatist

"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable"

Paul Claudel, Dramatist

"People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"There are two births: the one when light first strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"Every body about me seem'd happy, but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else"

Hannah Cowley, Dramatist

"There is no armor against fate"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in their dust"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion"

George Etherege, Dramatist

"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten"

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

"A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it"

David Mallet, Dramatist

"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war"

Nathaniel Lee, Dramatist

"Success is always something that you have to recover from"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"I shine in tears like the sun in April"

Cyril Tourneur, Dramatist

"It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all"

Georges Courteline, Dramatist

"No praying, it spoils business"

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

"The fool inherits, but the wise must get"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre"

Barrie Keeffe, Dramatist

"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night"

Nelson Gidding, Dramatist

"Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"I courted fame, but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it"

David Mallet, Dramatist

"All cats are grey in the dark"

Thomas Lodge, Dramatist

"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"

William Cartwright, Dramatist

"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us"

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

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