Peter Shaffer Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Peter Shaffer quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 98 year old British playwright born on May 15, 1926.
“I was an accomplice in my own frustration.”
“Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.”
“Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.”
“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”
“We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.”
“Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.”
“Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.”
“I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.”
“Art and literature are my surrogate religions.”
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
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