"The play's the thing...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;If it be man's work, I'll do't.”

“Come not within the measure of my wrath.”

“Silence is only commendableIn a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.”

“Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.”

“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”

“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”

“A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.”

“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”