Beaumarchais Plays Quotes & Sayings

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig

Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled him. For though his own youthful appetites were quickly sated, hers were ravenous and almost beyond his power to satisfy. Her kisses and caresses were a source of inexpressible delight; yet when all was over it was he who collapsed into the most profound slumber. Early the next morning she took him shopping, her manner fresh and cheerful. Jones could not fathom her spritely behavior. And in spite of all his best endeavors, he could scarcely keep his eyes open. — Henry Fielding

We make our house a home, but the sooner the mortgage is paid off, the sooner it truly turns into our own home. — Celso Cukierkorn

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. — Orson Scott Card

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. — Michael Baumgartner

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help? — Shirley Jackson

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. — Curt Schilling

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him. — Adelaide Clemens

The best thing I've done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. — Donald Trump