Tom Stoppard Quotes

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.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Eternity`s a terrible thought. I mean, where`s it all going to end?

We`re actors - we`re the opposite of people.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting.

We 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 eyes watered.

If an idea`s worth having once, it`s worth having twice.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It`s the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can`t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It`s not the voting that`s democracy; it`s the counting.