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.....

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....

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.

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.