1310 quotes by dramatists for you to enjoy

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar

Poetry Mere Sir

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay. George S. Kaufman

Woman Dinner Face Pay Price Invite Look She Expect Her

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye. George S. Kaufman

God Finally Eye Dead Caught His Waiter Epitaph

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time! Hannah Cowley

Too Late Too Late Minutes Been Five

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else. Hannah Cowley

Me Be Happy Happy Somewhere Every Else Hurry About Somewhere Else Body

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham. Harold Pinter

Time Birthday Party Birmingham Birthday Party Jobs Kinds Wrote Doing Waiter Dumb Repertory Room Acting Company Traveling

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable. Harold Pinter

Day People Those One Day Betrayal Scene Uncomfortable Became Around Were Provincial Very Roles Being Happening Pub Them Produced Really England Companies Actor Actually Played Playing Two

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it. Harold Pinter

Else Moods Some Taciturn Like Forbidding Well Quarters Been Deny Being Anyone Anyone Else Explosive Aware Enigmatic

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. Harold Pinter

Citizen Responsibility Country Think Say He Any Thinks

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that. Harold Pinter

Love Time Me School Language Seriously Few Drama Latin Restless Only Fed Fed Up Studying Schools Mostly Tied Go Left Up Sixteen The Only Thing Literature Interested English English Language Thing University

One's life has many compartments. Harold Pinter

Life Many

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day. Harold Pinter

Good Day Home Morning Remember Mother Father Dinner Down Seven Potatoes Tailor He Knock Like Until Him Always Got Least Lots Very After Dose Them Worked Used Cooked Night Needed

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare. Harold Pinter

Theatre Saw Shakespeare Only Ever

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. Harold Pinter

Work Me Long Piece Short Much Means

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. Harold Pinter

Life Politics Theatre Sphere Involved Force Non-Political Within Tradition Intellectual Intellectual Life Mocking Gets Any Arts British

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. Harold Pinter

Maelstrom Centre

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind. Harold Pinter

Creative Mind Spring Analysis Take Part Scientific Same Procedure

I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket. Harold Pinter

Morning Cricket Up Five Get Used Play

One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy. Harold Pinter

World Remember Though Torture Weapons Table Never League Supposedly Also Policy Robin Foreign Foreign Policy Behind Stopped Biggest Far Ethical Should Cook Exporter Even

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. Harold Pinter

Destruction Unless Collateral American Human Human Beings Happens Beings Damage

I also found being called Sir rather silly. Harold Pinter

Silly Rather Also Sir Being Found

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