Quotes by : Tom Stoppard

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit....

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who....

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think....

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that....

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary....

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against....

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge....

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there....

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is,....

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back....