Quotes by Playwrights

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. James M. Barrie

Wisdom World Never Know Until Understand How Loss Little Need

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett

Silence Word Nothingness Every Unnecessary Like Stain

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham

Friendship Character You Personality Over Friends Your Choose Choosing

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. Plautus

Man Mind Guilt Nothing More Wretched Than Conscious

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett

Silence You Must Never Know Am Go Where

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham

New Year's Dinner Party Too Dinner Party Eat Wisely Talk Well Should

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. James M. Barrie

Life Man Every Write Writes Volume He Hour Vowed Make Another His Diary Story Which Means Compares Every Man Humblest

The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. Lynn Nottage

People Frustration Sometimes Our Bear Brunt Closest Us Who

One should eat to live, not live to eat. Moliere

Live Eat Should

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. Neil Simon

Life You Pain Born Through Without Go Been Experiencing

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett

Love Me You Love Me Shall Love You Loved

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. Christopher Fry

Funny More Only Clean Halo After Keep Thing

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. Cyrano de Bergerac

Nature Arrogance Made Men Think Benefit Solely Sun Ripen Had Head Merely Insufferable Been Human Human Beings Beings Apples Set

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer. Eve Ensler

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. John Patrick

Life Wisdom Wise Man Thought Pain Think Makes

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry

You Lonely Must Exceptional Also Make Makes Inevitably Which Thing

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself. Luigi Pirandello

Love You Yourself Humanity Satisfied Say Well

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere

Control Kings Knows How Grammar Which Even

We die only once, and for such a long time. Moliere

Death Time Long Long Time Once Only Die Such A Long Time