Quotes by : Thornton Wilder

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled....

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and....

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.....

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in....

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't....

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors....

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself....

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?