Play Quotes - Page 24

• Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drama, Men, Might

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• I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

  Annie Dillard

  Baby, Morning, Husband

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• Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

  Willa Cather

  Envy, Loyal, Fiddle

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.77, Vintage

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• You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrite, Spirit, Sin

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• Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Genius, Faculty, Humans

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1836). “Conversations with Children on the Gospels”, p.39

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Sea, Dying

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.102, B Times

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• It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

  William Hazlitt

  Drama, Remarkable, Virtuous

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

  Sarah Lewis

  Curiosity

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• We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
  human in the truest sense of the word.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Humans, Truest

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• The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni

  Adam Gilchrist

  Ms Dhoni, Bats, Watches

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• When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

  Robert Frost

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Quests

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• Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Passion, Doe

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• The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Kings, Paris

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Book, Winning

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• The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Real, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

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• I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiration, Writing, Would Be

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• Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Sports, Baseball, Alive

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Goal, Car, Heaven

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Gambling, Creation Of The Universe

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• Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

  Rita Rudner

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

  Robert Frost

  Enemy, Able, Cowardice

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