Famous quotes by Playwrights

"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"As a boy, I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them!"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"No man can discover his own talents"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, as a moth brushes a window with its wing"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"The problem is that it is difficult to translate"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will, so to speak"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

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