Quotes by : Thornton Wilder

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses....

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery....

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of....

This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from....

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance;....

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.....

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear....

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

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of....