Famous quotes by Playwrights

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"It is easy, when we are in prosperity, to give advice to the afflicted"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"A god implants in mortal guilt, whenever he wants, utterly to confound a house"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Death is softer by far than tyranny"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Your wealth is where your friends are"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"A mouse does not rely on just one hole"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Be just before you are generous"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"So many men, so many opinions"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Extreme law is often extreme injustice"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Moderation in all things"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"They are so knowing, that they know nothing"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

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