Memorable Quotes and quotations from Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )


Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- 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 - Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
- We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

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- It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

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- 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.

Tom Stoppard -
- It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

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

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

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- Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard -
- 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.

Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- 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.

Tom Stoppard - "Artist Descending a Staircase"
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

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

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- The days of the digital watch are numbered.