Quotes by Dramatists

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. Alan Bennett
Will Local Libraries Solutions Find See Make Close Want Sustainable Them
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. Alan Bennett
World Long Boring Glad Take Over None Am Fits Child Person Childhood Want Nostalgia Forms Then Found Now
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Alan Bleasdale
Love Heart Age Old Mind Old Age Must Parallel Study Combine Exercise Body Vigor Keep Resist
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. Alan Bleasdale
You Business Run Well Any
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Alan Bleasdale
Love Great Woman Great Things Beginning Things
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. Alan Jay Lerner
Character You Face Enormous Pretty Pretty Face Underneath Flabby Lack Grant Exterior
Men die but an idea does not. Alan Jay Lerner
Men Idea Does Die
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. Alan Jay Lerner
Way Absolutely Him Speaking Englishman
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Alan Jay Lerner
Man Woman More Like Why
With a little bit of luck, you'll never work! Alan Jay Lerner
Work You Luck Bit Never Little Little Bit
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas
Happiness Fight Guarded Those Must Like Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Order Conquer Whose Palaces Gates Dragons
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Alexandre Dumas
Love Art Impossible Achieve Half Else Through No-One Conceit Infatuated Working Works Ever
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. Alexandre Dumas
Alone World Seriously Single Doubt Thinking Find Some Direction He Force Sought Gently His Brain Times Did Door Which Moving Succeed Should Racking Four Lever
Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumas
Success Nothing Like Succeeds
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. Alexandre Dumas
Business People Money Simple Other Quite
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. Anton Chekhov
Other Neither He Reached Nor Left Shore Fiance
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. Anton Chekhov
God Mistake Tell Must Able Failures Without Making Successes
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Anton Chekhov
You Must Direction Fail Cry Make Without Go Plain Forward
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Antonin Artaud
Worth Reading Others Once Way Destroyed Worth Reading Poetry Poets Written Dead Make Then Should
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. Aphra Behn
Money Language Sense All Nations Understand Nations Speaks
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. Aphra Behn
Love Age Love Is Worth Living Hour
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. Aphra Behn
Today Faith Tomorrow Gone Sir Here
There is no sinner like a young saint. Aphra Behn
Young Like Saint Sinner
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. August Strindberg
Life Character Man Complicated Simple Relationships Extremely Only Point Point Of View He Piece Often So-Called View Mechanism
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. August Strindberg
Fight Courage Cowards Those Protector Always Dogs Lack Disliked Themselves Who
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
Family Enemy Father Provider Thankless Dad Position
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