Dramatist Quotes

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The sharp employ the sharp.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

We have not the time to take our time.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.