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Stanislaw Lec: Open sesame-I want...

Stanislaw Lec: Open sesame-I want...

Open sesame-I want to get out.

Source: In 20,000 Quips and Quotes by Evan Esar,...

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William Shakespeare: It shall be...

William Shakespeare: It shall be...

It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom.

Source: A Midsummer...

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William Shakespeare: Thou seest I...

William Shakespeare: Thou seest I...

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: The better part...

William Shakespeare: The better part...

The better part of valour is discretion.

Source: Henry IV, Pt I, V. iv....

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William Shakespeare: But now behold,<br>In...

William Shakespeare: But now behold,
In...

But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought.


Source: Henry...

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William Shakespeare: How oft the...

William Shakespeare: How oft the...

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!


Source: King...

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William Shakespeare: Men must endure<br>Their...

William Shakespeare: Men must endure
Their...

Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all.


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William Shakespeare: O mischief, thou...

William Shakespeare: O mischief, thou...

O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: He that is...

William Shakespeare: He that is...

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Source: The Widow, in The Taming of...

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William Shakespeare: But since he...

William Shakespeare: But since he...

But since he died, and poets better prove,
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his...

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William Shakespeare: Thus to persist<br>In...

William Shakespeare: Thus to persist
In...

Thus to persist
In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,
But makes it much more heavy.


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William Shakespeare: The villany you...

William Shakespeare: The villany you...

The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the...

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J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has...

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J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about...

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Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write.

Source: The New York...

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Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything...

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Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Source: Warwick, in The Lark, pt. 1.
-- Jean...

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Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Source: Prometheus Bound.
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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