649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.