Famous quotes by Playwrights

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long, tiresome business, I always found"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Conquered, we conquer"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"I am human, and let nothing human be alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

Carlo Goldoni

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Call no man happy till he is dead"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Their silence is praise enough"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself, and our society is absolutely saturated with drama"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Childhood is a promise that is never kept"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

Carlo Goldoni

"Television is democracy at its ugliest"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

Paddy Chayefsky

"It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after"

George Ade, Playwright

"Personally, I have no bone to pick with graveyards"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Birth was the death of him"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

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