Tom StoppardHe's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. ✨ Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are De… ▶371Death
Tom StoppardThere is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Travesties, p.74, Faber & Faber361Reflection
Tom StoppardIf an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.362Thought
Tom StoppardI'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. ✨ Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'. Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguar… ▶351Politics
Tom StoppardBeauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.373Love
Tom Stoppardthe natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.374Love
Tom StoppardIt's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian In… ▶363Love
Tom StoppardWhat a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.352Death
Tom StoppardI doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.352Thought
Tom StoppardIt is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Arcadia, p.91, Faber & Faber342HumorLove
Tom StoppardThe fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.342HumanityTruth
Tom StoppardIf you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you c… ▶321HopeThoughtTime
Tom StoppardThe universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in tha… ▶376Humanity
Tom StoppardBefore Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of… ▶355LoveTime
Tom StoppardWe cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eye… ▶311Death
Tom StoppardBe happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, p.106, Faber & Faber355Death
Tom StoppardI'm a very boring person.322Time
Tom StoppardIf you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.311Love
Tom StoppardIf you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a … ▶312Life
Tom StoppardReal data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some … ▶334Time
Tom StoppardThe trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you w… ▶323DeathReading
Tom StoppardMy life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ✨ Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the… ▶367LifePoliticsThought
Tom StoppardI'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. ✨ Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'. Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010… ▶345PoliticsTime
Tom StoppardPersonally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2014). The Invention of Love, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.368Love
Tom StoppardWords, words. They're all we have to go on. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, p.32, Faber & Faber346Death
Tom StoppardWe do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ✨ Rosencrantz and Guilden… ▶291Death
Tom StoppardI write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.49, University of Mi… ▶313Reading
Tom StoppardFor all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. ✨ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Book by Tom Stoppard, August 24, 1966.… ▶346DeathReadingTime
Tom StoppardWe're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do y… ▶357DeathLove
Tom StoppardI should have the courage of my lack of convictions. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.126, University of Michigan Press335Love
