79 Quotes by Edward Bond

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.