Tom Stoppard Quotes

English - Dramatist Born: July 3, 1937

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Childhood, You, Never, Your, Become

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - Tom Stoppard

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Attitude, Health, Wait, Others, Healthy

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Motivational, Somewhere, Exit, Entry

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. - Tom Stoppard

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity, Growing Up, High, Price, Pay

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Life, Family, Children, Me, You, Village

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age, Maturity, High, Price, Pay, Very

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Education, Support, Want, Something

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life, You, Life Is A, Odds, Terrible

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Life, Time, Life Is Short, Short, Know

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

Good, People, Soldier, Book, End, Only

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Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

Honesty, Honesty Is, Often, Seldom

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Art, Walk, You, Painting, Understand

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

Art, Imagination, Skill, Picnic, Without

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

You, Past, Way, Present, Left, Movement

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Roads, Nobody, Speed, Limit, Miles, Hour

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Life, Truth, Live, You, Eye, Blur

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Advice, Give, Take, Grain, Bucket

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Life, Light, Society, Single, Matter

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Father, Memory, Confused, Genuine, Few

I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.

Say, Anything, Very

I'm good at being funny.

Funny, Good, Being Funny, Being

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Future, Think, Sacrifice, Attention

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.

Good, Time, I Am, Think, Long Time, Long

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Free, Free Press, Needs, Respected

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Truth, Facts, Only, Principles, Obtained

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Road, Theatre, Obstacles, Disaster

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