Tom Stoppard Quotes
36 Tom Stoppard quotes:
"The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say"
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"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
Certainty Quotes
Accuracy Quotes
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
English Dramatist Quotes
Indifference Quotes
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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"We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style."
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"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
English Dramatist Quotes
Honest Quotes
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"We're actors. We're the opposite of people."
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"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."
English Dramatist Quotes
German Mathematician Quotes
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"Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."
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"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
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"I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion."
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