Famous quotes by Playwrights

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Impropriety is the soul of wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"You must spend money to make money"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"No blessing lasts forever"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"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

Beth Henley

"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Work is much more fun than fun"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday"

Noel Coward, Playwright

Noel Coward

"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

Noel Coward

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

Sean O'Casey

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself"

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

"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; he fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard"

John Webster, Playwright

John Webster

"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

Harold Pinter

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

Peter Shaffer

"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

Mercy Otis Warren

"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"Words are all we have"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"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

Samuel Beckett

"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

Samuel Beckett

"If you do not love me, I shall not be loved. If I do not love you, I shall not love"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"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

Samuel Beckett

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"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

W. Somerset Maugham

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