Quotes about plays

"If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects."

Baudrillard, Jean on plays   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on plays   

"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   

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

Davis, Bette on plays   

"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   

"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   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on plays   

"Play needs direction as well as work."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays   

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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   

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

Hull, Josephine on plays   

"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   

"The last act crowns the play."

Ruskin, John on plays   

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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   

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

Shakespeare, William on plays   

"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   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on plays   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on plays   

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

Wilde, Oscar on plays   

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

Wilde, Oscar on plays   

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

Wilder, Thornton on plays   

"A play visibly represents pure existing."

Wilder, Thornton on plays