Alan Bleasdale

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. Alan Bleasdale To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Alan Bleasdale If you can [...]

Alan Bennett

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. Alan Bennett We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules. Alan Bennett I’ve never seen the point of [...]

Aphra Behn

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. Aphra Behn That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a [...]

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Brendan Behan New [...]

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Love that is not madness is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca ‘Tis not where we lie, but whence [...]

Henry James Byron

Life’s to short for chess. Henry James Byron Life’s too short for chess. Henry James Byron

Vittorio Alfieri

First thoughts are not always the best. Vittorio Alfieri Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. Vittorio Alfieri Liars are always most disposed to swear. Vittorio Alfieri Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Vittorio Alfieri A usurper always distrusts the whole world. Vittorio Alfieri Deep vengeance [...]

Antonin Artaud

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. Antonin Artaud No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Antonin Artaud So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do [...]

Edward Albee

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. Edward Albee Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee American critics are like American [...]

William Cartwright

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still. William Cartwright Tell me not of joy: there’s none Now my little sparrow’s gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw [...]