Quotes for One Act Plays (class 11)

1. The Dear Departed:

“What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.”

“Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.” S. Butler

“Two devils lived in Mrs. Slater: greed and envy. Together they gnawed at her, draining the luster from her eye and charity from her heart.”

“A family divided against itself will perish together.”

“It is best not to swap horses in midstream.”

“There is nothing to be feared from a dead body anymore than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

“Birds in their little nests agree

And ‘tis a shameful sight,

When children of one family

Fall out and chide and fight.”

“Chips never fly too far from the block.” Jamaican Proverb

1. Damon and Pythias:

“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,

And say my glory was I had such friends.” W. B. Yeats

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain

“O! It is excellent

To have giant strength! But it is tyrannous

To use it like a giant.”

“One day among the many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against the evil and strikes back.”

“There is a soul of goodness in thing evil.”

“The best of us sometimes eat our words.”

“We only accept a truth after we have first wholeheartedly rejected it.”