Best Tom Stoppard Wisdom
- He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. Anything Like
- The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one… Any
- Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order Dictated
- Give us this day our daily mask. Daily
- I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way. Grave
- Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. Every Turn
- ...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be… Acts
- The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. Blue
- Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Art
- When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility… All
- Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.… Asserts
- When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my… Astronomical
- You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. Desire
- A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. Inspirational
- Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. Hotel
- Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...? Blunt
- Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You… Been
- Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to… Became
- It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration… Away God
- Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.… Afterlife
- He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. Aim
- I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the… Blur
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to… Author
- Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium
- You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad. Animal
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