Character Quote by Thornton Wilder

“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself…

— Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

— Thornton Wilder

“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on…

— Thornton Wilder

“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as…

— Thornton Wilder

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

— Thornton Wilder

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in…

— Thornton Wilder

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

— Thornton Wilder

“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

— Thornton Wilder

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of…

— Thornton Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

— Thornton Wilder

“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose…

— Thornton Wilder

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

— Thornton Wilder