Famous quotes by Playwrights

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool"

Moliere, Playwright

"We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"To die will be an awfully big adventure"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together"

John Webster, Playwright

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