649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

No matter how imperfect things are, if you’ve got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

You can’t treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

I’m hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices – after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people’s.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it’s the cage that makes the animal bad.

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There’s a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Each move is dictated by the previous one – that is the meaning of order.

I’m vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.