Quote Donations
Make a contribution to the unique design of the Sumner Theatre by opting to support a quote on the Word Wall.
Donors can elect to support a specific (individually valued) quote of their choosing. Donors to the Word Wall will be credited in a publication listing all quotes on permanent display in the Theatre Foyer and also in Theatre signage thanking donors to the campaign.Â
For your convenience, you may view a PDF version of the quote list.
1.
"I am, George I am!"
-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Edward Albee
2.
"Brek-ek-ek-ek koax koax"
-The Frogs, by Aristophanes
3.
"What's inside you, Reg? Besides twelve bowls of cornflakes"
-The Norman Conquests 'Table Manners', by Alan Ayckborn
4.
"Let's Go! We can't. Why Not? We're waiting for Godot"
-Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
5.
"Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands"
-Forty Years On, by Alan Bennett
6.
"There's no business like show business"
-Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin
7.
"Hell is full of musical amateurs"
-Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw
8.
"Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi"
-Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
9.
"Words poppa; find the words"
-The Shifting Heart, by Richard Beynon
10.
"Terrible is the temptation to be good"
-The Good Person of Szechwan, by Bertolt Brecht
Quote Price: $5,000.00
11.
"Bells love silence"
-Bingo, by Edward Bond
12.
"Art nothing! I want to be brilliant in life - do you understand that?"
-Coralie Lansdowne Says No, by Alex Buzo
13.
"I'm afraid of depths"
-Man the Balloon, by Matt Cameron
14.
"Moscow! Moscow! Moscow!"
-Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov
15.
"On the way to a bran nue dae. Everybody, everybody say"
-Bran Nue Dae, by Chi & Knuckles
16.
"I do recommend a sex scandal"
-Serious Money, by Caryl Churchill
17.
"I would never pin up my hair with prose"
-The Way of the World, by William Congreve
18.
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is"
-Private Lives, by Noel Coward
19.
"The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right deed for the wrong reason"
-Murder in the Cathedral, by TS Eliot
Quote Price: $3,000.00
20.
"One stone"
-Einstein, by Ron Elisha
21.
"Poetry's a mere drug, sir"
-Love and a Bottle, by George Farquhar
22.
"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean"
-The Lady's Not For Burning, by Christopher Fry
23.
"I'll be silent on all the controversial topics - will that do?"
-Away, by Michael Gow
Quote Price: $5,000.00
24.
"I thought the whole deal was meant to be about love"
-Racing Demons, by David Hare
Quote Price: $1,000.00
25.
"We breed like sparrars and we die like sparrars"
-The Chapel Perilous, by Dorothy Hewett
Quote Price: $5,000.00
26.
"A last glass, mort"
-A Stretch of the Imagination, by Jack Hibberd
27.
"C'arn the Crows!"
-And the Big Men Fly, by Alan Hopgood
Quote Price: $5,000.00
28.
"No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure"
-Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen
Quote Price: $5,000.00
29.
"It's so hard to put everything into words, yet everything must be spoken"
-The Chairs, by Eugene Ionesco
Quote Price: $5,000.00
30.
"A grown up woman howling over a silly old kewpie doll, that's Olive for you"
-Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler
31.
"Old women can see through walls"
-The House of Bernada Alba, by Federico Garcia Lorca
Quote Price: $10,000.00
32.
"Put that coffee down - coffee is for closers"
-Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
33.
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?"
-Dr Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
34.
"A salesman is got to dream boy - it comes with the territory"
-Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
35.
"It's an odd job making decent people laugh"
-The School for Wives, by Molière
36.
"The young are always unforgiving - it's part of your charm"
-Honour, by Joanna Murray-Smith
37.
"I know you can take criticism, Jerry, because you must get a lot of it"
-Cosi, by Louis Nowra
Quote Price: $5,000.00
38.
"God is a gentleman - he prefers blondes"
-Loot, by Joe Orton
Quote Price: $5,000.00
39.
"What do you do... when that bucket's full? (pause) empty it (pause)"
-The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter
40.
"Have you heard it's in the stars, next July we collide with Mars"
-High Society, by Cole Porter
41.
"Hope is a moral responsibility"
-Life After George, by Hannie Rayson
42.
"The point is not to suffer the world but to change it"
-The Floating World, by John Romeril
43.
"I will keep with me but one thing...my panache!"
-Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmund Rostand
Quote Price: $1,000.00
44.
"I'll shout cooee, back to croajinga-linga-lingo-long"
-On Our Selection, by Steele Rudd, Bert Bailey, Edmund Duggan & George Whaley
45.
"That's rock!"
-Shirley Valentine, by Willy Russell
46.
"Hell is other people"
-No Exit, by Jean-Paul Satre
Quote Price: $8,000.00
47.
"I didn't get to where I am today by squeezing play-dough"
-Dreams in an Empty City, by Stephen Sewell
48.
"I shrank my own life - no one can do it for you"
-Equus, by Peter Shaffer
49.
"I love long life better than figs"
-Antony & Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
Quote Price: $2,000.00
50.
"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue"
-Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
51.
"A kingdom for a stage"
-Henry V, by William Shakespeare
52.
"Et tu Bruté"
-Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
53.
"Put out the light and then put out the light"
-Othello, by William Shakespeare
54.
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
-Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Quote Price: $1,000.00
55.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep"
-The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
56.
"Please don't yell in the house. The walls can't take it!"
-A Lie of the Mind, by Sam Shepard
57.
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible"
-The Critic, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
58.
"Time goes by and hopes go dry, but you still can try for your dream"
-Merrily We Roll Along, by Stephen Sondheim
Quote Price: $3,000.00
59.
"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
Quote Price: $10,000.00
60.
"Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World"
-Playboy of the Western World, by John Millington Synge
61.
"Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes"
-Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas
Quote Price: $5,000.00
62.
"If the writing was on the wall, why wasn't it read out loud?"
-Diving for Pearls, by Katherine Thomson
Quote Price: $5,000.00
63.
"Cheerful's in my horoscope - what are you?"
-A Cheery Soul, by Patrick White
64.
"A handbag?"
-The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Quote Price: $5,000.00
65.
"I can resist everything except temptation"
-Lady Windemere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde
Quote Price: $10,000.00
66.
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
-A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
Quote Price: $3,000.00
67.
"Great Party!"
-Don's Party, by David Williamson
Quote Price: $5,000.00
68.
"The problem is I'm sick of football"
-The Club, by David Williamson
69.
"Dead and never called me mother"
-East Lynne, by Mrs Henry Woods