Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not...… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It’s to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek knowing was used… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Tom Stoppard’s other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
