649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.