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He Quotes by Peter Shaffer
- It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's…
- I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you…
- It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with…
- There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
More He Quotes
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe