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"Call no man happy till he is dead"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"No blessing lasts forever"
Plautus, Playwright
"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice"
Plautus, Playwright
"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion"
Moliere, Playwright
"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday"
Noel Coward, Playwright
"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again"
Noel Coward, Playwright
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"
Sean O'Casey, Playwright
"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false"
Harold Pinter, Playwright
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; he fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard"
John Webster, Playwright
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself"
Jean Anouilh, Playwright
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"
Peter Shaffer, Playwright
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him"
Luigi Pirandello, Playwright
"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul"
Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it"
Maxwell Anderson, Playwright
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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