Quotes by Playwrights

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. Moliere

Negotiate Pleasures Compromise Generally True Heaven Certain

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language. Moliere

Beautiful Good Language Feed Soup

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. Moliere

Courage Pretenders Piety Well

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. Moliere

Change Woman Law Husbands Allow Annoying Does How Shirts Just

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. Moliere

Fault Proper More Sincere Than Being Little

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. Moliere

Fine Know How Oh Thing Two

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same. Moliere

Devout Am Same May Human Oh

I have the knack of easing scruples. Moliere

Easing Knack Scruples

To marry a fool is to be no fool. Moliere

Fool Marry

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. Moliere

People Mind Never Being Want Mean Being Mean Ridiculous

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'. Moss Hart

Made Mistakes Say Said Were Yes Wanted Ever

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. Moss Hart

Morning Worth Will Seven More Generally Hour Know Audience Repeated Hearing Anything Far Reasonable Larger Uttered

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female. Moss Hart

Man Unhappy Bores Nobody Female Any Much

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. Neil Simon

Money Rest Hundred Week Count Dollars Going Sudden Zero Two

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. Noel Coward

Treat Glorious Ought About Never Like Wit Spread Caviar

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. Noel Coward

People Say Wrong Opera Used They Say

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. Noel Coward

Sick About She Looks Been Just Mona

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. Noel Coward

Success Me Took Bosom Like Maternal Boa Her

There's always something fishy about the French. Noel Coward

About Something French Always Fishy

The higher the building the lower the morals. Noel Coward

Building Morals Higher Lower

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either. Ntozake Shange

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose. Ntozake Shange

Today Women World Made Face Important Difficulties Other Ourselves Silent About Purpose Share Talk Joys Another Because Pray Pray For Sisterhood Patriarchy Then Us Stand Each Near Serve Among

Multiculturalism is a white people joke. Ntozake Shange

People Joke White Multiculturalism

Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that we can find a way out of it without too much more injury to ourselves. Ntozake Shange

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves. Ntozake Shange

Health Generation Will Girl Thinking Other Guilty Having Tend Emotional Left Than Die Behind Anyone Themselves