Famous quotes by Playwrights

"General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States, was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"Bad's the best of us"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow will be as distant then as 'tis today"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"Kiss till the cow comes home"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"You are no better than you should be"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"But what is past my help is past my care"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"

John Guare, Playwright

"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that"

John Guare, Playwright

"The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force"

John Guare, Playwright

"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism"

John Guare, Playwright

"People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do"

John Guare, Playwright

"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise, the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted"

John Guare, Playwright

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