649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

I'm a very boring person.

I burn with no causes.