Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Larry Gelbart

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." 

- Larry Gelbart, author, playwright, screenwriter

Marcel Pagnol

“One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb”

- Marcel Pagnol, playwright, author and filmmaker

George Bernard Shaw

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Oscar Wilde

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Marcel Pagnol

“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”

- Marcel Pagnol, author, playwright and filmmaker

Ben Jonson

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."

- Ben Jonson, Renaissance playwright, poet and actor

Victor Hugo

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

George Bernard Shaw

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Oscar Wilde

“True friends stab you in the front.”

 - Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Graham Greene

"I can believe only in love that strikes suddenly out of a clear sky:
I do not believe in the slow germination of friendship
Or one that asks 'why?'
Because our love came savagely, suddenly, like an actor of war,
I cannot conceive a love that rises gently and subsides without a scar."

- Graham Greene, author, playwright, literary critic

William Shakespeare

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

John Gay

"Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save."

- John Gay, poet and playwright

Mary Shelley

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley, author, playwright

George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."

- 'Of Human Bondage' by W. Somerset Maugham

Henry Fielding

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."

- Henry Fielding, author and playwright