Tom Stoppard Quotes

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

We’re better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it’ll rain on auntie’s garden party three Sundays from now.

I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously a game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

Ambushing the audience is what theatre is all about.

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers… Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

I learned three things in Zurich during the war… Firstly you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary… I forget the third thing.