Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.
Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.
There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.
Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people.
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!