Quotes by Santayana, George

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. >>

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten >>

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. >>

Quotations about Theater

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. >>

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much >>

I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre. >>

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Santayana, George