Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I ought not to speak about the dead, because the dead are all over the place"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I mean, don't forget the Earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man, and I used to send him my plays"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I also found being called Sir rather silly"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust"

John Webster, Playwright

"Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin"

John Webster, Playwright

"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air"

John Webster, Playwright

"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best"

John Webster, Playwright

"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom"

John Webster, Playwright

"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop, they quickly both tire"

John Webster, Playwright

"Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop"

John Webster, Playwright

"Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched"

John Webster, Playwright

"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing"

John Webster, Playwright

"Man is most happy when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue"

John Webster, Playwright

"We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them"

John Webster, Playwright

"All things do help the unhappy man to fall"

John Webster, Playwright

"Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician"

Ken Hill, Playwright

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