Dramatist Quotes

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
There is no armor against fate.
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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