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.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I.....

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....

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?

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize....

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.