MAXWELL ANDERSON QUOTES
American playwright (1888-1959)
One must live as he can.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Elizabeth the Queen
When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Mary of Scotland
Heaven is always taken by storm.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Elizabeth the Queen
A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Mary of Scotland
This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Mary of Scotland
There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
High Tor
All men have crimes, and most of them are hidden.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
Without law men are beasts.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
High Tor
Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Anne of the Thousand Days
There is no god but death.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Elizabeth the Queen
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Valley Forge
We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
What the devil's a king but a man, or a queen but a woman?
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Elizabeth the Queen
As for justice, who has once seen it done?
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset