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Quotes About Drama

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
~ Georgette Heyer
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
~ Georgette Heyer
Imitai lo stile del Boy's Own Paper, sicchè ogni capitolo finiva nel momento più emozionante, con mamma aggredita da un giaguaro o Larry che si dibatteva tra le spire di un enorme pitone.
~ Gerald Durrell
This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
~ William Shakespeare
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
~ Henry Ellis
The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form, combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.
~ Donald Francis Tovey
Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
~ Lord Byron
The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.
~ Horace Walpole
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.
~ Glenda Jackson
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
~ Harold MacMillan
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
~ Honore de Balzac
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
~ Macaulay
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
~ Cicero
Will you get off me! But I'm giving you CPR- I will die before kissing you, Hollywood. Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. Don't even think about it.
~ J. R. Ward
It is so much like a movie, Irina can't stand it.
~ J. Robert Lennon
At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .
~ J. Robert Lennon
Who's with her? Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster. Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. I see. When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.
~ J.D. Robb
Chip Robbins, how many times have I told you not to yell out for me unless you're being stabbed with a pitchfork?
~ J.D. Robb
Whitney's giving a push on Russo. We'll
~ J.D. Robb
You're a dead man, Roarke. You don't know it, but you've already stopped breathing. The walking dead. And when you finally realize you're dead, and drop to the ground and you're laying there, I'm going to step over your cold, lifeless body, open the doors of that department store you call a closet, and I torch it. Eve Dallas
~ J.D. ROBB ( NORA ROBERTS)
Rhage stepped out in front of him (JM), Hey, hi! How are you? Hollywood stuck his hand out. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm the piece of meat that's going to force you headfirst into your buddy Quinn's Hummer as soon as it gets here. Just figured I'd introduced myself before I rope your ass and throw you over my shoulder like a bag of sand.
~ J.R. Ward
They never held hands. Never kissed in front of anyone. And there were no covert hot glances, either. But then again, Blay was a gentleman. And Saxton the Classy Slut put on a good show. His cousin was a straight-up whore—
~ J.R. Ward