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Lyndon B Johnson: The test before...

Lyndon B Johnson: The test before...

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the...

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Gamal Abdel Nasser: We're a sentimental...

Gamal Abdel Nasser: We're a sentimental...

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating...

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Abraham Lincoln: It has been...

Abraham Lincoln: It has been...

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Abraham Lincoln: If I were...

Abraham Lincoln: If I were...

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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David Hare: The theatre is...

David Hare: The theatre is...

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,...

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Oscar Wilde: I have put...

Oscar Wilde: I have put...

I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.

Source:...

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Thornton Wilder: The planting of...

Thornton Wilder: The planting of...

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the...

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Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Source: Six Characters...

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Luigi Pirandello: Nature uses human...

Luigi Pirandello: Nature uses human...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

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Aphra Behn: Faith, Sir, we...

Aphra Behn: Faith, Sir, we...

Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone tomorrow.

Source: The Lucky Chance, IV,...

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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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Robert Bolt: It profits a...

Robert Bolt: It profits a...

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

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Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring...

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Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

Joaquin Miller: The biggest dog...

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Edwin A Robinson: I don't say...

Edwin A Robinson: I don't say...

I don't say what God is, but a name
That somehow answers us when we are driven
To feel and think how little we...

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Countee Cullen: The play is...

Countee Cullen: The play is...

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see
That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree,
Swart victim of a...

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Denise Levertov: One of the...

Denise Levertov: One of the...

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as...

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Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Thomas Campbell: Gentlemen, you must...

Gentlemen, you must not mistake me. I admit that he is the sworn foe of our nation, and, if you will, of the whole...

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Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

Joyce Kilmer: For nothing keeps...

For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable...

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John Ashbery: I don't look...

John Ashbery: I don't look...

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a...

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