Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Tom Stoppard:

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

"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The truth is always a compound of two half truths, and you never reach it"