1310 quotes by dramatists for you to enjoy

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. Jean Racine

Time Man Circumstances Would Would-Be Admit He Cannot Many

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. Jean Racine

Nothing Difficult Out Seeking May Found

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Jean Racine

Old All Things Friends Maxim Common Themselves Among Things

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. Jean Racine

Death Day Eyes Light Back Purity Gives Taking Which

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! Jean Racine

Hopes Misery Thank Gods

Too much virtue can be criminal. Jean Racine

Too Much Too Virtue Criminal Much

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. Jean Racine

Virtue Brutality Outright Pushed

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are. Jez Butterworth

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. Jez Butterworth

Politics Attitude News Me Father Programmes Absolutely He Scholarship Mainly Towards Trade Always Got Trade Union Off Five-Year-Old Child Oxford Breathed Turns Union Lived Watching

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. Jez Butterworth

Marriage Experience Has-Been Because Blissfully Been Romantic Views Actually

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. Jez Butterworth

Good Responsibility Think Neighbors Writers Audience Any

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. Jez Butterworth

Love Feeling Past Seeing Always Whenever England English Present

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! John Ciardi

Game Every Way Invented Making Mankind Hard Fun Ever Things

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciardi

Nothing Wrong Moderation Sobriety

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. John Ciardi

College Students Faculty Becomes Loses Interest University

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. John Ciardi

Give He Him Reader Opinion Anyhow Deserve Deserves Honest

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. John Ciardi

Saved Earned Quarter Dollar

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. John Ciardi

Changing Worse Neighborhood Area Residential

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. John Fletcher

Alone Thoughts Never He Noble Accompanied

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. John Fletcher

Today You Tomorrow Shall Drink Drown Perhaps Sorrow

When all candles be out, all cats be grey. John Heywood

Cats Out Candles Grey

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. Jules Renard

Beautiful Wings Feet Line Verse Twelve Two

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Jules Renard

Life Our Spend Our Lives About Mystery Talking Lives

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. Jules Renard

Great Reward Men Long Great Men Dead Sure Died Quite After

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