Famous quotes by Playwrights

"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"It never became an act in the sense of an act, it was always, no matter where we worked, little revues"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"He that would govern others first should be master of himself"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"I feel bad that I don't feel worse"

Michael Frayn, Playwright

"It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd, interesting angles to the ways of life, to put on the stage"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God, the rest would follow"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong"

Michael Frayn, Playwright

"Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed"

Michael Frayn, Playwright

"The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste"

Joe Orton, Playwright

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen, I was more familiar with Africa than my own body"

Joe Orton, Playwright

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"Ambition, in a private man, is a vice, is in a prince, the virtue"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire), politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character, the author who works in a groove works in blinkers"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"For the last half of my life, I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one"

Philip Massinger, Playwright

"Prosecution, I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

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