649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.