Tom Stoppard quotes - page 2

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. (Tom Stoppard)
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. View quote
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Beauty 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. View quote
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. View quote
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. View quote
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. View quote
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It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. View quote
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. View quote
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Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos. View quote
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Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. View quote
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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 an entrance somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. View quote
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The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. View quote
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What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. View quote
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It would have been nice to have had unicorns. View quote
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter. View quote
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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. View quote
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in. View quote
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Pirates could happen to anyone. View quote
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. View quote
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order. (Tom Stoppard)
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. View quote
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. View quote
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him. View quote
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How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight. View quote
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