Plays

(132 votes)   The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(127 votes)   A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(124 votes)   In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(107 votes)   If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(98 votes)   The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(94 votes)   My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(93 votes)   The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(91 votes)   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.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(88 votes)   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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(88 votes)   Play needs direction as well as work.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(83 votes)   The last act crowns the play.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(79 votes)   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.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(72 votes)   One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(66 votes)   Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

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