Dramatist Quotes
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich Schiller
German physician
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter
British playwright
To advise is not to compel.
Anton Chekhov
Russian playwright
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
George Colman
English dramatist
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Harold Pinter
British playwright
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine
French dramatist
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
Irish dramatist
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner
German dramatist
Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
Edward Albee
American playwright
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'neill
American playwright
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
August Strindberg
Swedish playwright
You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
Harold Pinter
British playwright
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
Lady Gregory
Irish dramatist
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter
British playwright
I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
Lady Gregory
Irish dramatist
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille
French tragedian
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold
English dramatist
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
German physician
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