Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
The future of American film lies on television.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
You must remember, all stories start somewhere.
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
And here I always thought morality was useless.
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
I've never thought of leaving the South, never.
The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.