English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard quotes

English Playwright, Critic July 3, 1937

Tom Stoppard quotes in russian
Tom Stoppard quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

Tom Stoppard quote: "There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could..."
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Tom Stoppard
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?' Herzen:..."
Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?' Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things..."
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the..."
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how..."
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if..."
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. Tom Stoppard
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. Tom Stoppard
He'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. Tom Stoppard
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre..."
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. Tom Stoppard
Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. Tom Stoppard
THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! Tom Stoppard

Popular Author

Related Authors