649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.