Tom Stoppard Quotes

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

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.

Tom Stoppard