Quotes from Maxwell Anderson

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.

If other planets dark as earth About dim trembling stars Carry frail freight of death and birth, Wild love, and endless wars; If from far, unseen motes in flight Life look down questioning This helpless passage through the night Is a less lonely thing:

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

One must live as he can.

The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.

All men have crimes, and most of them are hidden.

Heaven is always taken by storm.

There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.

The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.

Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.

Without law men are beasts.

There is no god but death.

As for justice, who has once seen it done?