Best Thornton Wilder Quotes
- The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Best
- Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention… Attention
- The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of… Act
- I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal. Ability
- Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Cream
- The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we… Analyze
- Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Attentive
- A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a… All
- Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time. Art
- Heaven's my destination. Destination
- I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms. All
- I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps Acknowledge
- Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. Administer
- Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. Break
- On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. All
- The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and… All
- There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. All
- People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… Always Asking
- A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing… Among
- On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character… Always Now
- The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real… Drama
- Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what… Appear
- I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility. Aware
- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. Expensive
- A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Condition
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