Best Thornton Wilder Quotations
- The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from… Action
- We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars… Ain T
- That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings… Alive
- [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. Get Near
- The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an… Adventure
- Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. All
- Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. Around Encouraging
- Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Anybody
- Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Any
- The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Dead
- EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. Anyone
- Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,… Been
- The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. Earth
- Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices… Bad
- There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. Drunkenness
- Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute? Any
- But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while… All
- you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life Inspirational
- Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot… Anybody
- I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a… Children
- Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the… Another Equally
- [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of… Accidents
- [Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily… Any
- People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. Go
- Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure. Look
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