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Top 30 Moss Hart Quotes (2025 Update)

Moss Hart Quote: “Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!”

1. “Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!”

Moss Hart Quote: “Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order.”

2. “Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order.”

Moss Hart Quote: “There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.”

3. “There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.”

Moss Hart Quote: “The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.”

4. “The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.”

5. “Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.”

Moss Hart Quote: “I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.”

6. “I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Boredom is the keynote of poverty – of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with – for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.”

7. “Boredom is the keynote of poverty – of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with – for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.”

8. “Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.”

Moss Hart Quote: “There’s nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn’t cure.”

9. “There’s nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn’t cure.”

Moss Hart Quote: “New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”

10. “New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”

Moss Hart Quote: “I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.”

11. “I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.”

12. “Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.”

Moss Hart Quote: “The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.”

13. “The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one’s own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.”

14. “Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one’s own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.”

Moss Hart Quote: “The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.”

15. “The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.”

Moss Hart Quote: “You’d be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.”

16. “You’d be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.”

Moss Hart Quote: “So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o’clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.”

17. “So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o’clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.”

Moss Hart Quote: “The general conception that all actors are born exhibitionists is far from the truth. They are quite the opposite. They are shy, frightened people in hiding from themselves- people who have found a way of concealing their secret by footlights, make up and the parts they play. Their own self rejection is what has made most of them actors.”

18. “The general conception that all actors are born exhibitionists is far from the truth. They are quite the opposite. They are shy, frightened people in hiding from themselves- people who have found a way of concealing their secret by footlights, make up and the parts they play. Their own self rejection is what has made most of them actors.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.”

19. “Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.”

Moss Hart Quote: “There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.”

20. “There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.”

21. “Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.”

Moss Hart Quote: “One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.”

22. “One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Without vanity a writer’s work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.”

23. “Without vanity a writer’s work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.”

Moss Hart Quote: “I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early – it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.”

24. “I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early – it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one’s own.”

25. “Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one’s own.”

Moss Hart Quote: “Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.”

26. “Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.”

Moss Hart Quote: “One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.”

27. “One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.”

Moss Hart Quote: “There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.”

28. “There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.”

Moss Hart Quote: “A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.”

29. “A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.”

Moss Hart Quote: “The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.”

30. “The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.”

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