All Peter Shaffer Quotes
- You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and… Alone
- 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, that's… Bore
- What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? Doe
- The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. Adults
- Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. Art
- The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there. Daddy
- What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons? All
- A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. All
- And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time… All
- Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing… Any
- I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of… America
- I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. Actor
- I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you… Book
- I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. Born
- The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. Best
- Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. All
- My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. Actual
- I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything. Blame
- Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. All
- Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. Inspirational