81 Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

: كل ما نحس به مصنوع من الزمن.كل ما بالحياة من جمال يصوغه الزمن.تصور غروبا ثابتا....،آخر رنة في أغنية استمرت مدة ساعة أو قبلة تستمر نصف ساعة.حاول أن توقف لحظة من حياتنا،فإذا بها تتعفن دفعة واحدة.حتى كلمة"لحظة"خطأ حيث إنها تعني ذرة من الزمن.شيء يمكنك أن تلتقطه على خرقة لتفحصه...ولكن هذه مصيدة الحياة الفظيعة،لا يمكنك أن تهرب من الدود،إلا إذا سايرت الزمن،وإن فعلت،فإنه سيدخل جسمك على أي حال.

: ولكن يا سيدي،السبب النبيل يمكنه أن يجعل القتال مجيدا. : أعطني سببا يبقى نبيلا بعد أن تبدأ في تقطيع الأطراف الآدمية من أجله.ليس هناك قضية في العالم تعادل هذا الألم.النبل كلمة اتركها للكتب.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.