Quotes about plays




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"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on plays    Share

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."

Colby, Frank Moore on plays    Share

"I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later."

Davis, Bette on plays    Share

"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."

Eliot, T. S. on plays
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"The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited."

Hammerstein, Oscar on plays    Share

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

Hoffer, Eric on plays    Share

"One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays    Share

"Play needs direction as well as work."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays    Share

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"Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education."

Hughes, Thomas on plays    Share

"Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king."

Hull, Josephine on plays    Share

"Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford."

Johnson, Samuel on plays    Share

"The last act crowns the play."

Ruskin, John on plays    Share

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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on plays    Share

"If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work."

Shakespeare, William on plays    Share

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

Shaw, George Bernard on plays    Share

"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."

Shaw, George Bernard on plays    Share

"A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind."

Thoreau, Henry David on plays    Share

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"The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster."

Wilde, Oscar on plays    Share

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

Wilde, Oscar on plays    Share

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"Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

Wilder, Thornton on plays    Share

"A play visibly represents pure existing."

Wilder, Thornton on plays    Share

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