Tom Stoppard's Quotes

Tom Stoppard's Quotes 45

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained...

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the...

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm...

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you...

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd...

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a...

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian...

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last...

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the...

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more...

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but...

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects...

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his...

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to...

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to...

From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained...

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers but with the...

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