1508 quotes by playwrights for you to enjoy

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. Lope de Vega

Love Jealousy Punishment Greater Glory Nor Than Any

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. Lorraine Hansberry

God Dreams Man Black Nothing Worthwhile See Seem Give Seems He Like Make Fit Did Children Them Us

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. Luigi Pirandello

Love Beautiful Art Dreams Time You Soul Heart Writing Mind Air Spend All My Time Would Would-Be My Soul My Time Gives Could Through Weighs Share True Come Goes Phantoms

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. Moliere

Fool More Learned Than Ignorant

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. Moliere

Me Wrong Know Right

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other. Neil Simon

Fluid Party Other Later Gee Some Terrific Get Each

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture. Noel Coward

Furniture Say Trip Over Lines Just

Courage in danger is half the battle. Plautus

Veterans Day Courage Battle Half Danger

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Plautus

Best Patience Trouble Every Remedy

Let deeds match words. Plautus

Wisdom Words Match Deeds

Your wealth is where your friends are. Plautus

Wealth Friends Where Your

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Sam Shepard

Home You Yourself Country Related Reckon Kind Exactly Never Had Feel Like Know Always Fit Where Nostalgia Place

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. W. Somerset Maugham

Suffering Own Others Our Learn Resignation

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. W. Somerset Maugham

Age Youth Old Old Age Pleasures Though Than Different Which Less

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. W. Somerset Maugham

Best Only Always His Person Mediocre

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham

Day Thought Up Get Pity Lovely

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham

Me Eyes Book Phrase Seem Only Part Come Perhaps Read Becomes Passage Which Meaning Then Across Now Now And Then

Tolerance is another word for indifference. W. Somerset Maugham

Word Tolerance Indifference Another

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. Arthur Miller

Life Man Commitment Approaches Say More Point Emotion He Concentration Call His Tragedy Fixed Intense Closer Fanaticism Which

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself. Athol Fugard

Life You Change Yourself My Life South Africa Else Extraordinary Spent Out Ring Finding Finding Yourself Shadow Having Through Take Lifetime Had Nobody Nobody Else Like Boxing Gloves Opponent Been South Off Get Africa Realising Apartheid Suddenly Reinvent

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women. Eve Ensler

Future You Women Humanity Once Destroy See Know Because Without How End Going Sustain Happens Population

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. Frank Wedekind

Art Fool Bad Luck Luck Consists Bad Knowing How Any Exploit

In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories. George C. Wolfe

You Doctor Father Lose Out Pointing He Remembering Bought Drove Empty His Providence Lots Survive Office Often Where Stories Ice Ice Cream Cream Communities Hometown Early

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene

Kindness Relationship Worth Relationships Thousand Lies Truths Human Human Relationships

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