649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.