649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.

I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

It’s no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.

Stark raving sane.

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?

I’m attracted to the past.

It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

What a fine persecution – to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.