Quotes by : Thornton Wilder

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....

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

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.....

Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.....

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

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

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

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