Tom Stoppard Quotes
26 quotations by Tom Stoppard
We're actors. We're the opposite of people. |
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. |
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. |
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. |
The days of the digital watch are numbered. |
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. |
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. |
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. |
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. |
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. |
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. |
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. |
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. |
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. |
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. |
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. |
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. |
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. |
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. |
Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. |
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? |
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. |
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. |
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. |
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. |