Quotes by Dramatists

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

Man Value Nothing Everything Price Knows Cynic Who

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde

Good Man Intelligence Enemies Too Good Looks Characters Looks His Friends Cannot Acquaintances Choice Choose Careful

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. Oscar Wilde

Love Relationship Women Men Everything See Give Little Them Lives

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee Williams

Fire Down Live Trapped Way Locked Out Window Look House Call Department Just Upstairs Burns While Us

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard

Maturity Pay High High Price Price Up Growing Growing Up

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare

Great Nature Men Live Eat Great Ones Fishes Up Little Sea

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. William Shakespeare

Peace Mountains Our Shall Firm Rocky Rocky Mountains Stand

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw

Dancing Horizontal Perpendicular Expression Desire

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw

You Dangerous Stupid Unless Sincere Also

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux

Life Example Flower Poetry Reproduction Eternal

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. Oscar Wilde

Work Art Ethics Will Beauty Cowardly Own Rich Lesson Complete Those Moral See Vital Strongly More Shame Instincts Terror Aesthetic Than Artistic Who Appeal Fill Whom

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde

Democracy People Simply For The People Means By The People

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde

Art Our Only Through Perfection Realise

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Richard Steele

Destruction Gossip Slow Fire Engines Compared Swords Tongue

Love is too young to know what conscience is. William Shakespeare

Love Love Is Young Too Know Conscience

What is past is prologue. William Shakespeare

Past

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. William Shakespeare

Action Pleasure Seem Hours Make Short

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare

Heart Hide Face Must Know False Doth

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. William Shakespeare

Valor True Quarrel False

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Zora Neale Hurston

Hide Those Got Show

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. George Bernard Shaw

Communism Socialism Better Only Same English