Famous quotes by Playwrights

"Always be a little kinder than necessary"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular, you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Joyce, for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate"

Arthur W. Pinero, Playwright

"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination"

Arthur W. Pinero, Playwright

"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Failure too is a form of death"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought"

Graham Greene, Playwright

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