The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Quote by Thornton Wilder

Topics: Spirit Quotes

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on...

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on...

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different...

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

A play visibly represents pure existing.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings,...

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings,...

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we...

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we...

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good,...

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good,...

He who laughs, lasts.

He who laughs, lasts.

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds,...

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds,...

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to...

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...