Athol Fugard Quotes

For all agonies of the joints: Lum¬ bago, rheumatism, tennis elbows, housemaid’s knees;also ideal for bunions, corns, callouses

I mean, how do I wash off yours and your father's filth?...I've also failed. A long time ago I promised myself I would do something, but you've just shown me...Master Harold...that I've failed.

He certainly was trying to teach people to get the steps right.

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

Hally: Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants then go home and write a ‘little book’ called War and Peace. Incidentally, Sam, he was somebody else who, to quote, ‘…did not distinguish himself scholastically.

Don’t talk crap, Hally! You don’t even know what the word ‘sympathy’ means.

Burn that book? Stop kidding yourself, Sizwe! Anyway, suppose you do. You must immediately go apply for a new one. Right? And until that new one comes, be careful the police don't stop you and ask for your book. Into the Courtroom, brother. Charge: Failing to produce Reference Book on demand. Five rand or five days.

Mr. Sam was our father. He knew about our dreams and ambitions.

Do you think Fathers do any more for their sons, except in terms of money, that Mothers do for their daughters.

Little white boy ... and a black man old enough to be his father flying a kite.

No smell doth stink as sweet as labour, Tis joyous times when man and man Do work and sweat in common toil.When all the world’s my neighbor.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

To be one of those finalists on that floor is like... like being in a dream world in which accidents don't happen."

We need a definition of greatness, and I suppose that would be somebody who... somebody who benefited all mankind."

In fact, I was shit-scared that we were going to make fools of ourselves.