Famous quotes by Playwrights

"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome"

Plautus, Playwright

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies"

Plautus, Playwright

"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things"

Plautus, Playwright

"Courage in danger is half the battle"

Plautus, Playwright

"Courage easily finds its own eloquence"

Plautus, Playwright

"Bad conduct soils the finest ornament, more than filth"

Plautus, Playwright

"A word to the wise is enough"

Plautus, Playwright

"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Those that vow the most are the least sincere"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"It's safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild, agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist"

Terence, Playwright

"The anger of lovers renews their love"

Terence, Playwright

"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing"

Terence, Playwright

"In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before"

Terence, Playwright

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse"

Terence, Playwright

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