Famous quotes by Playwrights

"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

"In oratory the will must predominate"

David Hare, Playwright

"Smiles are the language of love"

David Hare, Playwright

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin"

David Hare, Playwright

"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry"

David Hare, Playwright

"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"I shall state silences more competently than ever; a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Do we mean love, when we say love?"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind"