Quotes by Dramatists

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Oscar Wilde

Blame Luxury Else Ourselves No-One Feel Us Right

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. Oscar Wilde

Man World Beauty Nothing Everything Moods Because Reveals Itself Us Meanings Many Whole Shows Expresses Symbol Symbols

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. Oscar Wilde

Women Men Sexes Compliments Never Between Disarmed Always Women Are Difference

I have nothing to declare except my genius. Oscar Wilde

Genius Nothing Except Declare

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger

Dignity Lost Honors Never True Withdrawn Place Gained

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille

Revenge Hatred Crown Take Disaster Court Condemn Either Your

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. Tennessee Williams

Life Dignity Believe Unanswered Importance Still Question

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams

Success Work Me Failure Negative Before Back Typewriter Out More Pushed Had Always Am Been Reviews Very Than Get Sends Apparent Play Compelled Night

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. Thomas Dekker

Wisdom Age Fool Better School Gilded Saint Than Thinks

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. Tom Stoppard

Myself Hopeless Looking See How Trying Working Why Things

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. Tom Stoppard

Mathematics Queen I Am Others Considered Claimed Some Because Sciences Am Led Mathematician Centuries Certainties Certainty Grounded Aware Fundamental Axiom

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. Tom Stoppard

Honesty Honesty Is Seldom Often

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. William Shakespeare

Strength Women Men Fall May

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare

Invention Fire Would Heaven Ascend Brightest Muse

Having nothing, nothing can he lose. William Shakespeare

Lose Nothing Having He

I will praise any man that will praise me. William Shakespeare

Me Man Will Praise Any

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare

Day Seen Fair Foul

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. William Shakespeare

Natural Grace Better More He Does

There's place and means for every man alive. William Shakespeare

Man Every Alive Place Means Every Man

They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare

Miracles Past Say They Say

The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

Death Valiant Once Never Taste

For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare

Me Part Greek

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner

You Hate Believe Careless Kind Efforts Flattery Your

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. Wilson Mizner

Women World Water Tears Power Most Efficient