Tom Stoppard Quotes & Sayings

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”

“Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”

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

“The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.”

“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”

“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”

“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.”