"Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting." — Tom Stoppard

"Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting."

— Tom Stoppard

Discomfiting Quotes Honesty Quotes Honesty Is Quotes Ingratiating Quotes Often Quotes Seldom Quotes

306 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard has 306 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach…
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or…
Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions…
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are…
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to…

See all 306 quotes by Tom Stoppard »

More Discomfiting Quotes

This quote is filed under Discomfiting Quotes, one of 6 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the… — Marc Ian Barasch
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the… — Benjamin Moser
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most… — Eva Hoffman
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to… — Virginia Postrel
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able… — James Lovegrove

See all 6 Discomfiting Quotes »