Theatre Quotes

There should be a notice ahead of the movie that says 'This movie is PG. Can you read? You are a Parent. Do you understand what Guidance is? Or are you just another stupid toddler who thinks they're an adult simple because they've grown older and, unfortunately, have developed fully-functioning sexual organs? Would you like some committee somewhere to decide everything for you? Get a damn grip, will you? And shut the wretched kid up!

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.

It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

'All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

If thou remember’st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov’d.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears;
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

A play is a slice of life put onstage with art.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.