Quotes by Dramatists

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams
Man Writing Wrote Cannot Separated Who Honest
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. Tom Stoppard
Life You Life Is A Odds Bet Take Terrible Gamble
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. Tom Stoppard
Life Light Matter Single Society Put Idea Single Life Singularity Very Just Which Each Jeopardy
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Tom Stoppard
Theatre Imminent Road Obstacles Disaster Insurmountable Series
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. Tom Stoppard
Future Good You Generation Lie Paradise Leader Cowardice Down Enough Adolescence Brute Brute Force Sacrifices Wrong Force Felt Huge Wheels Ask Sentimental Your Notion Right
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' Tom Stoppard
Love Saying Theatre Free Playwrights Back Email Visit Would Support Like Announcing Wrote Said Got Were Existence Yes America Wanted Us Asked England
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Tom Stoppard
Thought Terrible End Going Mean Eternity
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard
Illusion Responsibility Power Subscribe Able Throughout Never House Without Lords Been Which Ages Prerogative
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. Tom Stoppard
Life I Am My Life Preparation Incomplete Week Pointless Feels Ideally Am Being Next Play Level
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. Vittorio Alfieri
Crime Wicked Virtuous Distinguishes Felt Err Contrition Human To Err Is Human
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. William Cartwright
Life Me You Light First Sense Other Our Strikes Must Anew Born Both Count New Souls Were Romantic Loved Then Us Awakened Unite Two
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare
Soul Joy Lies Doing Won Done Things
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! William Shakespeare
Old Men Lying How Lord Subject Vice Old Men
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare
Thoughts Words Never Without Go Heaven
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. William Shakespeare
Man Honesty Dog Will Would Hath More Him Truly Hang Any Much Who
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. William Shakespeare
Happiness Man Eyes Bitter Through Look Another How Thing
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. William Shakespeare
Better Fly Others Bear Know Than Tis Ills
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools. William Shakespeare
Time Great Fools First Smell State Air Thou Born Come Cry First Time
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. William Shakespeare
Good Woman Gear She Well Fortune
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. William Shakespeare
Soul I Am Honour Alive Sin Most Am Covet Offending
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above. William Shakespeare
Man Above Gods Dwells Might
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. William Wycherley
Love Good You Quality Women Distinguish Civil Breeding Good Breeding Hardly
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. William Wycherley
Country Constantly Only Town Like Retreat Mistress Dwell Little Should Away Near Night
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. William Wycherley
You Conversation Too Much Too Books Like Make Mistresses Discreetly Fitter Unfit Them Much Used Company
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. Wilson Mizner
Education Faith You Respect Doubt Gives
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner
Life Tough First Hundred Hundred Years Proposition Years Hardest
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