649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.