Quotes by Dramatists

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. Brendan Behan
Love Relationship You World Somebody Important Important Things Eat Something Drink Most Get The Most Important Love You To Love Things
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco
Death Fear Sadness Political Vice Versa Pain Living Society Our System Has-Been Able Abolish Absolute Deliver Versa Been Condition Political System Human Vice Human Condition Social Us Thirst
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw
You Coward Hero Without Being Cannot
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. George Bernard Shaw
Better Everybody Guesses Secrets Than Kept
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
Life Work Own Live Thoroughly More Sake Up Die Want Used Harder Rejoice
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
Dreams Youth Wonderful Crime Wonderful Thing Children Waste Thing
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. Jean Racine
Heart Others Never Noble Felt Malice Suspect Cannot Pettiness
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
Tired Women Men Marry Both Disappointed Because Curious
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde
Only Shallow Refuge Seriousness
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
Nothing Excess Like Moderation Succeeds Thing Fatal
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams
Kindness Strangers Always Depended
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. Tennessee Williams
Yourself Hell Only Puts Feel Himself Redemption Another Person Aside Hell Is Deeply
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
Life Made Make Partly Friends Choose
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. Tennessee Williams
Success You Out Come Concentrating Blocked While Success Is Planning Watching Shy
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. William Shakespeare
Worthy He Flattered Flatterer Loves
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. William Shakespeare
You Thief Way Out Steal Take He Most Him Himself Your Show Company Peaceable
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. William Shakespeare
Mind Fair Like Terms Not Fair Villain
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas
Love Together Pure Latter Pure Love Makes Exit Suspicion Dwell Where Door Cannot Former
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas
Dangerous Generalizations Even
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov
Time Nature Fruit Will Trees Pick Look Learn Times May Us Bare Forward Let Us Appreciate
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. Anton Chekhov
Life You Trust People Impossible Believe Must Becomes
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science. Anton Chekhov
Faith You Science Ocean Entire Seems Finish Only Drink Could Glass Start Two Thirsty
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. Anton Chekhov
Life Alone About Well Learn
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. Brendan Behan
Seen Situation Worse Never Policeman Make Dismal
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Brendan Behan
Respect Wonderful Cynical Everybody Everything Rather Irish Lack
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Behan
Success Alone Man Our Dream More Prospect Most Without Terrors Cherished His Than Achieved Achieving Deprived Who
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