Tom Stoppard Quotes

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard

Public, Private, Total

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Expect, Box

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Play, Next

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Beautiful, True

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard

Revolution, Suffering, Trivial

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard

Days, Watch, Digital

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Fact, Attracted

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard

Happy, Fact, Loved

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard

Media, Sounds, Convention

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom Stoppard

Young, Film, Television

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Tom Stoppard

Society, Optimal

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
Tom Stoppard

Bullets, Turned, Shells

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Enjoy, Enough

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard

Art, Useful, Modern

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
Tom Stoppard

Try, Away, Keep

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Small, Getting

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard

Mean, Opinions, Interested

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard

Real, Between, Often

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard

Able, Against, Hold

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
Tom Stoppard

Time, Good, Long

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Long, Remember

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3, 1937

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