649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

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.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me – I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar – you pretend it’s not there.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It’s essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

People think there’s a choice between smoking and immortality, but we’ve all got to die of something.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead.

They had it in for us, didn’t they? Right from the beginning. Who’d have thought that we were so important?

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.