Eugene O'Neill Quotes

“Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' de big stealin' dey puts your picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croak. If dey's one thing I learned in ten years on de Pullman cars, listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact. And when I gits a chance to use it . . . from stowaway to emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!”

“Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' de big stealin' dey puts your picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croak. If dey's one thing I learned in ten years on de Pullman cars, listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact. And when I gits a chance to use it . . . from stowaway to emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!”

“Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.”

“Know how to live the time that is given you.”

“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the fo”

“Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite today is big with blessings.”

“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo”

“When you´re at the point you feel you have nothing to live or thrive fo, be like a camera, use your negatives to develop”

“Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward”

“Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.”

“Give me, if you will, prayers;Or let me know dryness,An abudance of devotion,Or if not, then barrenness.In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,I find my peace,What do you want of me?Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:What do you want of me?”