Memorable Quotations: Playwrights of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of 74 great playwrights of the past: Zoe Akins, Jean Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sholem Asch, Enid Bagnold, Djuna Barnes, Vicki Baum, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Arnold Bennett, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean Cocteau, William Congreve, Noel Coward, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, John Gay, Jean Genet, Susan Glaspell, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Oliver Goldsmith, Lady Gregory, Lillian Hellman, Eugene Ionesco, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Jerrold, Ben Jonson, Karl Kraus, Jean-Francois de La Harpe, Charles Lamb, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Charles Macklin, Maurice Maeterlinck, Elisabeth Marbury, Don Marquis, W. Somerset Maugham, Carson McCullers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Murphy, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O'Casey, Eugene O'Neill, John Osborne, Vance Palmer, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Katherine Fowler Philips, Luigi Pirandello, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Muriel Rukeyser, Francoise Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Von Schiller, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, J. August Strindberg, J. M. Synge, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Mae West, Oscar Wilde, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe, William Wycherley, Edward Young, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Israel Zangwill.