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Things Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
- Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as…
- Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have…
- If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
- I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
- Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
- When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
- For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
- I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle