1310 quotes by dramatists for you to enjoy

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Edward Moore

Time Youth Long Summer Though Cheek Sorrow Tis Them Your Roses Washed Now

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Edward Moore

Dreams Rich Beyond Am Avarice

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it. Edward Moore

Great You Blessed Think Spread Influences Need

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Myself You Mirror Bathroom Find Photographs Fine Seeing Mirrors Detestable Magnifying Take Like Shaving Course Because Surprise Dislike

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Day You Sometimes Sunday Nice Enjoy Spend Spending Fact Obsessed Because Always Friends Very Frightening Get Blues Decide Again Really Next Working Evenings

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Music Day Writing Listening Reading Spend Know Without Listen Century

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Me People Money Trapped Living Other Enough Enough Money Slice Top Above Paris Student Bought Idea Feel Soon Like Make Houses Buildings Always Making Ham Apartments Sandwich Right

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Consider Books Piano House Without

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Character Made More He Flattering

The critic should describe, and not prescribe. Eugene Ionesco

Critic Should Describe Prescribe

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example. Eugene Ionesco

World Example Parents Year Anti-Semitism Society Back Later France Hated Born For Example Shattered Year Later Came Moved Romania Near Thirteen

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco

Needs Spiritual Revolution Vital Indispensable Like Surrealist Revolutions Expression

You can only predict things after they have happened. Eugene Ionesco

You Predict Only After Happened Things

We have not the time to take our time. Eugene Ionesco

Time Our Our Time Take

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art. Eugene Ionesco

Life Work Politics Art Made Feelings Living Characters One Or Two Given Having Fact Writers Count Beyond Involved Goes Going Which Centuries Created Who Even Eventually Two

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. Eugene Ionesco

Kind Detestable Bourgeois Most Often Alas

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O'Neill

Sad Contentment Joyful Either Warm Should

The will of man is his happiness. Friedrich Schiller

Happiness Man Will His

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. Friedrich Schiller

Heart Will Noble Always Reason

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. Friedrich Schiller

Man Word Only He Meaning Meaning Of Full Plays

Quotes by Dramatists