Best Tom Stoppard Proverbs
- It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. Alive
- Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef. Arms
- Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between… End
- Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. Both
- Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? Even Happy
- If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the… Alter
- We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden… Atom
- The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying… All
- For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. All
- Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my… Call
- Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in. All
- It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into… Account
- I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. Contradicting
- ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? All
- GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear Approach
- We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? Brick
- Uncertainty is the normal state. Existentialism
- Death is the ultimate negative. Death
- It's the wanting to know that makes us matter. Funny
- Well, we'll know better next time. Better
- Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king."… Age
- Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping… Autumnal
- All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it… All
- I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. All
- Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence… Absence
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