Famous quotes by Playwrights

"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects"

John Webster, Playwright

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"It's better to be fortunate than wise"

John Webster, Playwright

"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons"

John Webster, Playwright

"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think you just can't move them about, you know"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I'm a man without a corporation"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed, it will in a dull man"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Everything matters. Time is precious"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Know how to live the time that is given you"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people"

George Ade, Playwright

"A good folly is worth what you pay for it"

George Ade, Playwright

"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do"

John Guare, Playwright

"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that, because it keeps the ballet alive"

John Guare, Playwright

"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy"

John Guare, Playwright

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