Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.