Famous quotes by Playwrights

"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving"

Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable"

John Patrick, Playwright

"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone"

Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright

"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists"

Robert Greene, Playwright

"For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom"

Cao Yu, Playwright

"Easier to climb up than to just hang on"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"If I had to give a definition of capitalism, I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather"

David Hare, Playwright

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together"

David Hare, Playwright

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature"

David Hare, Playwright

"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism"

David Hare, Playwright

"When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths"

David Hare, Playwright

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail"

David Hare, Playwright

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth"

David Hare, Playwright

"Children always turn to the light"

David Hare, Playwright

"No one but a fool is always right"

David Hare, Playwright

"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity"

David Hare, Playwright

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