Tom Stoppard Quotes


Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard Growing 128
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. Tom Stoppard Tragedy 118
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. Tom Stoppard Life 108
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard art 107
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Tom Stoppard Government 102
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. Tom Stoppard Violence 96
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard Health 90
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard Power 90
The truth is we value your company for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devicesafter a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other peoples. Tom Stoppard Solitude 88
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. Tom Stoppard Uncategorized 86
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. Tom Stoppard Art 85
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. Tom Stoppard Society 85
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard Attitude 84
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isnt ones lover. Tom Stoppard Relationships 84
Be happy if youre not even happy whats so good about surviving Tom Stoppard Struggle 84
I write out of my intellectual experience. Tom Stoppard Experience 82
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Tom Stoppard Cruelty 82
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard Entry 81
THOMASINA But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue Tom Stoppard Libraries 80
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. Tom Stoppard Tragedy 80
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard Knowledge 78
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard Quotations 73
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. Tom Stoppard Beauty 73
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard Age 71
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard Age 70
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God Tom Stoppard Universe 70
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. Tom Stoppard Work 70
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. Tom Stoppard Afterlife 69
Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard Attitude 67
Save the gerund and screw the whale. Tom Stoppard Grammar 67
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard age 66
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. Tom Stoppard Art 66
Life in a box is better than no life at all… I expect. Tom Stoppard Uncategorized 65
The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard Days 64
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. Tom Stoppard Answers 61
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. Tom Stoppard Uncategorized 61
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard Change 58
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. Tom Stoppard Essentially 57
A Chinaman of the Tang Dynastyand by which definition a philosopherdreamed he was a butterfly and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him in his twofold security. Tom Stoppard Existentialism 57
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. Tom Stoppard Madness 55
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. Tom Stoppard Growth 55
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. Tom Stoppard News 55
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. Tom Stoppard Music 55
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. Tom Stoppard Music 54
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard Certainty 52
Death is the ultimate negative. Tom Stoppard Existentialism 51
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. Tom Stoppard change 46
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation. Tom Stoppard Age 45
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. Tom Stoppard Health 42
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. Tom Stoppard Education 42

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