“At home we can say to our ladies: 'I love you', or to our native earth. It means we rejoice in their lives…Love must be free, or else it alters away. Command it to your court: it will send a… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
“Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
