Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately, violence is never a solution in human affairs"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"I'm interested in the real world"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Money does not make you happy, but it quiets the nerves"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

Sean O'Casey

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"The world doesn't make any heroes anymore"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise, she's oft found witty, but is never wise"

John Webster, Playwright

John Webster

"One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

Harold Pinter

"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

Peter Shaffer

"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

Peter Shaffer

"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success"

John Osborne, Playwright

John Osborne

"It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly"

John Osborne, Playwright

John Osborne

"In bed, my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"Monuments are for the living, not the dead"

Frank Wedekind, Playwright

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect"

Tristan Bernard, Playwright

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck"

Carl Zuckmayer, Playwright

"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills"

Clifford Odets, Playwright

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

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