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.

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.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.