Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.
There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.
The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.
The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.