Playwright Quotes: Inspiring Words from Masterful Dramatists (Page 2)

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering"

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice"

"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

"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

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

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"You must spend money to make money"

Plautus, Playwright

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life"

Plautus, Playwright

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides"

David Hare, Playwright

"I wrote my first play when I was eight"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"You can't always let people do their own thing"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid"

Jean Anouilh, 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

"Easier to climb up, than to just hang on"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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