Famous quotes by Playwrights

"Location is a very important aspect to songwriting"

Ken Hill, Playwright

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"I like reality. It tastes like bread!"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed!"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Every man thinks God is on his side"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"He who talks much cannot talk well"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... That was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me. It was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that, of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Librarians as a race tend to be tedious"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"We... Our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"You can't always let people do their own thing"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

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