Dramatist Quotes

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
I dream, therefore I exist.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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