dramatist Quotes

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

• 404
• trust

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

• 393
• friends

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. French translation

• 322
• future

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

• 300
• goals

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

• 289
• Life

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

• 254
• future

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

• 239
• symphatise

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

• 197
• Change

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

• 176
• intention

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

• 176
• future

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

• 169
• will

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

• 166
• expectation

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

• 106
• enemies

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

• 91
• patriotism

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

• 91
• Punctuality

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

• 90
• experience

True friends stab you in the front.

• 84
• Friends

Art provides the language we need to appreciate life.

• 79
• life

The course of true love never did run smooth.

• 64
• Fight

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

• 62
• people

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

• 54
• age

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

• 50
• attributed

People usually are the happiest at home.

• 48
• Home

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

• 46
• Sin

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

• 45
• truth

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

• 45
• Manners

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

• 45
• Art

This above all; to thine own self be true.

• 43
• true

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

• 42
• gives

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

• 42
• Trust

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

• 42
• Fellowship

All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.

• 42
• Death

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

• 41
• Ethics

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

• 41
• Beginnings

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

• 40
• Bravery

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

• 39
• Travel

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

• 39
• books

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

• 37
• people

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

• 37
• Selfishness

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

• 37
• Identity

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

• 36
• Men

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

• 35
• Knowledge

The heart was made to be broken.

• 34
• heartbreak

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

• 33
• Temptation

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

• 33
• Loyalty

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

• 33
• Evil

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

• 33
• Bravery

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

• 32
• Dreams

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

• 31
• Sin

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

• 31
• Happiness