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Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

Sean O'Casey: [W]ith whitened hair,...

[W]ith whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity...

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Harold Pinter: One way of...

Harold Pinter: One way of...

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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Joe Orton: The kind of...

Joe Orton: The kind of...

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad...

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Christopher Hampton: You see, I...

Christopher Hampton: You see, I...

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by...

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John Osborne: He really deserves...

John Osborne: He really deserves...

He really deserves some sort of decoration . . . a medal inscribed 'For Vaguery in the...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.

Source: In...

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Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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George Gordon Byron: This is the...

George Gordon Byron: This is the...

This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and saving souls,
All propagated with the best of...

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George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...

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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Stanislaw Lec: Intelligence, in diapers,...

Stanislaw Lec: Intelligence, in diapers,...

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it...

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William Wycherley: Go to your...

William Wycherley: Go to your...

Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Source:...

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William Wycherley: Good fellowship and...

William Wycherley: Good fellowship and...

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Source:...

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Charles Schwab: A man to...

Charles Schwab: A man to...

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole...

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Al Ries: Today, communication itself...

Al Ries: Today, communication itself...

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we...

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Robert Half: Hard work without...

Robert Half: Hard work without...

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

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Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Source: My Apprenticeship, Ch. 2,...

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