“An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 139 of 303
“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”
“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.”
“In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.”
“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.”
“Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.”
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
“Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.”
“Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.”
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.”
“First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.”
“The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .”
“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.”
“Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]”
“The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.”
“Half the world knows not how the other half lies.”
“Quick believers need broad shoulders.”