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Know Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
- I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
- War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to…
- I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of…
- If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
- How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head…
- I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms…
- I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and…
- 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…
- Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
- 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…
- 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.…
- Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
- 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…
- It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
- Well, we'll know better next time.
- Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
- I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
- When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about…
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