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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Source:
-- Sean...

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Noel Coward: I like long...

Noel Coward: I like long...

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Source:...

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Wilson Mizner: When you take...

Wilson Mizner: When you take...

When you take stuff from one author, it's plagiarism; if you take it from many writers, it's...

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August Wilson: She's just using...

August Wilson: She's just using...

She's just using him to keep from being by herself. That's the worst use of a man you can...

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David Mamet: We respond to...

David Mamet: We respond to...

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

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Christopher Marlowe: There is no...

Christopher Marlowe: There is no...

There is no sin but ignorance.

Source: The Jew of Malta, 1589.
-- Christopher...

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Pierre Corneille: Do your duty,...

Pierre Corneille: Do your duty,...

Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.

Source: Horace.
-- Pierre Corneille,...

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William Wycherley: He's a fool...

William Wycherley: He's a fool...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool;
what is wit in a wife good for, but to...

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William Wycherley: Your women of...

William Wycherley: Your women of...

Your women of honour, as you call'em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'tis scandal that...

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Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Source: In Peter's...

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Noel Coward: I like long...

Noel Coward: I like long...

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Source:...

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William Wordsworth: All good poetry...

William Wordsworth: All good poetry...

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...

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Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

Rupert Brooke: A pulse in...

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given.
Her sights and sounds;...

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Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the...

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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Oh, this age!...

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

Caius Valerius Catullus: I hate and...

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment.

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Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....

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Andrew Marvell: How vainly men...

Andrew Marvell: How vainly men...

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays.


Source: The...

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