Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.
I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.
I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.