Quotes by Dramatists

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life. Richard Steele
Life Affection Hell Suitable State Married Without Heaven Capable Image Receiving
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. Richard Steele
Me Those Morality Oblige Obliged Point Look Endeavour Who
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. Samuel Foote
Time Great Garden Married He Head She Make Coming Up Very Same Died Shop Same Time Soap Cut Barber Pops Street
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. Samuel Foote
Living Born Cellar
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. Tennessee Williams
Confidence Wine Pretense Only Feel Most Noon Influenced Which Appear
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. Tennessee Williams
Day Writing Rest Alive Only Stop Really Working
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams
Nature Better Hell Some Stuff Lot Than Vacuum
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. Terence Rattigan
Lose Few Own Playwright Dares Must Minute Never Readers Audience His May Pages Novelist
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. Thomas Dekker
Love Hate Fate Old Kings True Principle Traitor May Treason
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Dekker
Science Wonderful World Will Think Our Miracle Magical More Sciences Still After Whosoever
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. Thomas Dekker
Husbands Make Wives
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. Thomas Dekker
Passion Our Angels Like Till Dies
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. Thomas Holcroft
Soul Be Patient Patient Worse Thou Hath My Soul Than Suffered
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. Thomas Kyd
Life Death Eyes World Tears Fraught No Life Mass Wrongs Oh Form Public Lively
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us. Thomas Otway
Justice Blind Well Lame Us Amongst
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. Thomas Shadwell
Mind Frailty Noblest Wit
Hope is a very thin diet. Thomas Shadwell
Hope Very Diet Thin
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. Thomas Shadwell
Fool World Haste Thing
No man is happy but by comparison. Thomas Shadwell
Man Happy Comparison
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. Tom Stoppard
Life Truth You Live Corner Eye All Your Life Something Outline Like Becomes Permanent Close Being Blur Your Grotesque
When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' Tom Stoppard
You Dark Moon Dark Side Side Mine About New Said His Hand Friend Walked Where Room Really Working Play Album Copy
My brain cells are dying in their trillions. Tom Stoppard
Brain Brain Cells Cells Dying
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. Tom Stoppard
Birthday Me Half Party Before Birthday Party Harold Student Attended Began Author Sitting Front Just Realised Victoria January Rooms Production Bristol Plays
My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. Tom Stoppard
Happy Water Lonely Faces Never Perfectly Sitting Desk
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard
Change World Believe Change The World Aim Immediate Weapon More Journalism Still Short-Term Your
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. Tom Stoppard
Art You Walk Painting Around Understand Wall Modern Modern Art Sculpture Hard
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