1508 quotes by playwrights for you to enjoy

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene

People Same Thing Proletariat About Nobody Talk Terms Governments Same Human Human Beings Should Mugs Beings Why Thing Thinks

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors. Howard E. Koch

Good You Neighbor Neighbors Only

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. James M. Barrie

Temper Weapon Blade Hold

It's not a character flaw to become an adult. Kenneth Lonergan

Character Become Adult Flaw

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. Kenneth Lonergan

Art You Communication People Communicate Seen Pain Other Pleasure Failing Like Beyond Itself Very Any Human Want Succeeding Means Your Professional Film Profound Filmmaking

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. Moliere

Pleasant Virtue Annoying Vice Prefer

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. Moliere

Haste Direct Unreasonable Road Error

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. Moliere

Every Unlimited Indulge Occasion Frenchmen Capacity

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. Moliere

Soul Solitude Twenty

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. Neil Simon

Happiness Money Some More Point Just After Certain Certain Point Brings

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett

Quality World Tears Somewhere Else Laugh Constant Somewhere Else Weep True Another Begins Same Stops Who Each Each One

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett

Humanity Intelligence Sense Philosophers Poets

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett

You World Nothing Most Yes Than Unhappiness Grant Thing Funnier

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham

Habit Prevents Excess Occasion Exhilarating Effect Moderation Acquiring

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham

Apt Perfection Dull Grave Defect

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham

Gentleman Writer Very Hard

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. W. Somerset Maugham

Food You Three Eat Well Want England

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Arthur Miller

Value Profit Thinking Seduced Make Without Does Which

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller

Life Like Because Accidental Endlessly Theater Much Fascinating

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. Arthur Miller

Me You Judge Sometimes Goodness Look Judge Me

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. Arthur Miller

Good Value Shoes Nothing Faults Tried Good Pair Some Having Simply Failures Make Any Justification Pair Lived

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