Tom Stoppard Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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