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  • The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Play Quotes , Devil Quotes
  • When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Theatre Quotes
  • A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Humble Quotes , Play Quotes
  • There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. P. Herbert Quotes , Play Quotes , Symphony Quotes
  • Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Men Quotes , Play Quotes