Famous quotes by Playwrights

"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Ah! How annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"The one overall structure in my plays is language"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"I'm not interested in an imaginary world"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"I think there is no world without theatre"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"The higher the building, the lower the morals"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick or is about to be"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"There's always something fishy about the French"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Humanity's become a product, and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

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