Famous quotes containing the words european, theatre, world and/or war:
“Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)