1306 quotes by dramatists for you to enjoy

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. Wole Soyinka

You Arrogance Pride Colonialism Feeling Way Gives Imperial Take Adventure Openness Sort Undertake Bred Your Innate

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. Zora Neale Hurston

People Cruelty Enormous Except Unconscious Haitian Gentle Lovable

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. Alan Bennett

Seen Meets Point Except Never None Shore Where Land Sea

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. Alan Bennett

Life Key Looking Like Box

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with. Alan Bennett

Life Myself You People Writing Too Complain Find More Through Had Written Wrong Stuff Perhaps Know Look Read Comfort Closely Died Quite May After Public

You write a hit the same way you write a flop. Alan Jay Lerner

You Way Write Hit Same Flop

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. Alan Jay Lerner

Criticism Ailment Respiratory Coughing Theater

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. Alexandre Dumas

Death Good Live Wished Know How Order Necessary

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas

Education Men Stupid Must Does How Intelligent Children Little Little Children

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Anton Chekhov

God Good Judge Eye Bad Would Take Between Unsuccessful Successful

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. Anton Chekhov

Faith You Aptitude Must Born Spirit Fact Talent In Fact

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. Anton Chekhov

Art Science Wealthy Well Always Surrounded

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud

Language Teeth Chatter True Like Beggar Incomprehensible

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud

Man Try Long Despair Those Tries Cleanse Failed Himself Causes Any Human Which Means Right Eliminate

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Antonin Artaud

Time Myself Morning Me Conversation Made Every Suicide Nine Spent Insane Visit Asylum Would Able Throat Never Had Obsession Know His Years Hang Psychiatrist Want Cut Realizing Each