#play quotes

[elvencantation]

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. One should read everything. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”

- The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

[reverie-quotes]

Eventually, even love is hard and cruel, my dear. I feel like a she-wolf. Nothing in the world is as intense as motherhood—

– Karel Čapek, The Mother

[midnightmuses301]

"𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐭."

𝐄𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬

[mutantoftomorrow]

'It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.'

- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[prettythought]

The Boys In The Band (1968)

[betterinthedarkblog]

“First thing in a crisis. Ancient times, soon as some major shit went down - war, famine, death of the Pharaoh - first thing you do, find a goat. Put all your shit on its head - fear, shame, iniquity, whatever you got - and you let it loose, out into the wilderness. Then you hunt it down, cut out its heart and burn it as an offering to the gods. Have you done that yet? Did I miss it?”

— Jez Butterworth, THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA

[user-thirt3en]

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

-Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Stationers’s Register, 1603.

[destielcowboy]

“Are you so principled because you’re good, or are you only good because you’re afraid of getting punished?”

- David Bareford, Seeking Mr. Hyde