drama quotes

   The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

- Dannie Abse
  Journal entry, Feb, collected in Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986).

His name was Shadow, short for ShadowThat Comes in Sight, an old Indian name, Apache or Cheyenne. I very much approved of this.You don't want dogs called Spot or Pooch.You don't want dogs called Nigel or Keith. The names of dogs should salute the mystical drama of the animal life. Shadowthat's a good name.

- Martin Louis Amis
  Money.

   Underall theroofs ofthis distracted City isthenodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution.

-Thomas Carlyle
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.5, ch.6.

  Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

- D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark) Griffith
c.1915  Comment on World War I. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).

She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.45.

Le drame tient de la trage  die par la peinture des passions et de la come  die par la peinture des caracte'  res. Le drame est la troisie'  me grande forme de l'art. Indrama, tragedy paintsthepassions and comedy paints characters. Drama is the third great form of art.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Ruy Blas, pre  face.

   Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

- Eddie Izzard
  In The Guardian,17 May.

The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Prologue, written for David Garrick on the occasion of the opening of his management of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'A National Dream-Life'.

Name me one character in literature or drama who can't be described as neurotic† We wouldn't want to know the people we get to see on the stage. How would you like to have Medea for dinner? Or Macbeth slurping your soup? Or Oedipus with his bloody, blinded eyes dripping all over your tablecloth?

- Geraldine Page
Attributed.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

- Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author (translated1922).

The poet is a master of the quotidian, of conveying a whole history in two or three lines that point to an exact past drama and intensifya future one.

- Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
  The Myth Makers,'Borges'.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama†ridicule and reproach†pleading and persuasion.

-William Safire
  Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.

Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.

- Charles,Jr Scribner
In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in thetheatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

- Kenneth Tynan
  Tynan Right and Left, foreword.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

- Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr Vidal
  In the NewYorkTimes,17 Jun.

The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  In the NewYorkTimes, 6 Nov.