Quotes by Dramatists

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. Hugh Leonard

Genius Problem Country No Talent Absolutely Talent Ireland The Problem With Full

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. Hugh Leonard

Day Illusion Wife Down Living Corner Saw One Day Eye Out Vanished She Came Room Standing Moment Her Living Room

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. Hugh Leonard

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. Hugh Leonard

Else Able Write Writer Anything Anything Else

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. Hugh Leonard

Life Time Hate Think Crimes Foolishness Also Understand Understood Did

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were. Hugh Leonard

Love Time Great People Passion Married Great Love Seem Almost She Devoted Because Were Years Lot Just Anything Fought Startled

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. J. P. Donleavy

Poverty Marry Look Irish

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator. James Shirley

Honor He Overpaid Commentator Did Act

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. James Shirley

Death Men Crowd Calls Common

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet

Beauty Thieves Recognize Ruthless Cunning Traitors Deep

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet

History Man People Crimes Constitute True Real Same Which Ashamed

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Jean Genet

Strange Fact Shares Knows Singularity Anyone Who

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Jean Genet

Great People Humiliation Wind Saw Ghetto Carrying Only Shame Had Almost Dropped Invisibility Over Gentle Been Friendly Little Centuries Breeze Swept Away Four

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit. Jean Giraudoux

Love Men Unless Most Wives Deceit Deceive Form Fidelity Them

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets! Jean Giraudoux

Business Creative Cheese Imagination Tool Our Financier Poets Pound Share Like Stimulate Sell Stock Artist Commodity Fields Customer View Creative Artist Shovel Certificate Function

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. Jean Giraudoux

Beautiful You Woman Think See Admirers She Because Without Go Handsome Staff Them Much Who Nowhere

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux

Marriage Women Faithful Think Alike Husbands Only Never Women Are Fidelity

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Jean Giraudoux

War Live Everyone Air New Learns Falsehood Element

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. Jean Giraudoux

Life Love Marriage Wife Rest Husband Other Never True Reached Discord False Same Whether Who Agreement Each Elemental Portion

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? Jean Racine

Nothing Know Knowing Pass Bring

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before. Jean Racine

Before Nothing Fine Said Been Now

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. Jean Racine

You Women Will Own Disposition Know Hearts Inclination Set