Quotes by Dramatists

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. Lady Gregory
Failure Heart People Way Fail Most Up Keeping
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. Lady Gregory
Good Day Every Day World Year Every Good Place Some Malice Where Place
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters. Lady Gregory
Beautiful Book Made Out Characters Poems Written Clear House His Irish Where Manuscript Found Grave
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing. Lady Gregory
Day Every Day Nothing Every Seven Prophecy Week True Come Blind Hear May Them
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! Lady Gregory
Silence World Too Earth Oak Hawk Through Cry Terrible Another Sounds Squeezing Crashing Acorn Little Roots Many
When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment. Lady Gregory
Death Time Soul Fight Judgment Enough Out Charitable Touch Given Lay Hours Couple Go Been Up Itself Should Body Right
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. Lady Gregory
Time Spent More More And More Feel Ireland Wasted
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. Lady Gregory
Great Conversation Country Drama Great Country Toward Makes Ireland Inclined
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it. Lady Gregory
Work Music Time Good Theatre Good Work Own Stage Field See My Own Rather My Time Splendid Taking Like Hall Go Up Did Really Should Why
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. Lillian Hellman
Judge Baby Carriage Point Point Of View Outside Nobody View Believes Chamber
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. Lillian Hellman
Success Man Everything Makes Straight Stand
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. Lillian Hellman
Myself Justice Courage Word Hell Unjust Final Say Over How How Many Times Scolded Times Refuse Against Mean Used Many Now Violations
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. Lillian Hellman
Truth Word Books Slippery Tell Tricky Tried Unreliable
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman
Writing Advice Young Say Would About Give Writers Had Talking Listen Young Writers Themselves
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman
Hope Good You Will First Nothing Out Hoped Write Come Ever
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. Lillian Hellman
Good Strength People Pretending Lose See Minute Been Who Even Lives
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman
Writing Advice Young Say Would About Give Writers Had Talkers Talking Listen Fancy Young Writers Themselves
You lose your manners when you are poor. Lillian Hellman
You Lose Manners Poor Your
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. Marcel Pagnol
Secret Something Privately Whisper
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. Marcel Pagnol
Man Own Difficult Secret Most Himself Opinion His Keep
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. Marsha Norman
Truth Change People Better Before Think Something Hear Might Avoid
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself. Marsha Norman
Love Knowledge Yourself Gift Giving Kind About Someone Most Knowing Profound
There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets. Marsha Norman
Buy You Women National Think System Percent Days Tickets Issue Arts Endowment Quota Theater Realize Should Production Plays
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. Marsha Norman
Life Music Vision My Life Playwright Would Would-Be Had
When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway. Marsha Norman
Mother Long Before Broadway Would Would-Be Opened Know Another How Did Show Night
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. Marsha Norman
You Think Musical String Put Around Your Pearls Neck
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