81 Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.