649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.