Best Tom Stoppard Lines
- The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout… Able
- The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other… All
- The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… Authority
- You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because… Art
- It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. Defect
- I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the… Aviation
- Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know! Gods
- Pirates could happen to anyone. Anyone
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we… All
- We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Down
- We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of… Behind
- Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie… Anybody
- The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things… Clouds
- I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable,… Adventure
- There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Been
- the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a… All
- Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well,… All
- We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being… Entrance
- ...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute... Day
- I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read. Book
- Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension… Across
- I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. Beauty
- Words, words. They're all we have to go on. All
- If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Beer
- A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… Ang
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