Ugo Betti

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way. Ugo Betti All of us are mad. If it weren’t for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn’t be any point in giving each person a separate name. Ugo Betti This free [...]

Tristan Bernard

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give. Tristan Bernard In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised – but by things that they expect. Tristan Bernard  

Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. Cyrano de Bergerac A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving. Cyrano de Bergerac The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had [...]

Samuel Beckett

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Samuel Beckett Habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Samuel Beckett Words are all we have. Samuel Beckett All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, [...]

David Belasco

Boxing is show-business with blood. David Belasco

Francis Beaumont

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. Francis Beaumont Let no man fear \to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. Francis Beaumont There is a method in man’s wickedness; it grows up by degrees. Francis Beaumont You are no better than [...]

James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? James M. Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed [...]

Howard Barker

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. Howard Barker I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal [...]

Peter Barnes

There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what’s causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it’s us. Peter Barnes

Maxwell Anderson

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. Maxwell Anderson He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. Maxwell Anderson If you [...]

Leonid Andreyev

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. Leonid Andreyev

Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much. Jean Anouilh The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. Jean Anouilh All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. Jean Anouilh God is on everyone’s side… and in the [...]

Marcel Achard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. Marcel Achard Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. Marcel Achard The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the [...]

George Ade

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. George Ade Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. George Ade For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. George Ade If it [...]

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. Arthur Adamov The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. Arthur Adamov Misery’s fine – as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. Arthur Adamov Things always happen in series. Arthur Adamov