Quotes by : Peter Shaffer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the....

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique....

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep....

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.