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Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere.
– Tom Stoppard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
– Tom Stoppard
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
– Tom Stoppard
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
– Tom Stoppard
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
– 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
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
– Tom Stoppard
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
– Tom Stoppard
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
– Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
– Tom Stoppard
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
– Tom Stoppard
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
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
– Tom Stoppard
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
We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
– Tom Stoppard
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
– Tom Stoppard
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
– 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
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.
– Tom Stoppard
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
– Tom Stoppard
I write out of my intellectual experience.
– Tom Stoppard
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
– Tom Stoppard
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
– Tom Stoppard
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
– Tom Stoppard
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
– Tom Stoppard
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
– Tom Stoppard
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
– Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
– Tom Stoppard
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
– Tom Stoppard
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.
– 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
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
– Tom Stoppard
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
– Tom Stoppard