Tom Stoppard Quotes

1937–2025, Czech Playwright
quotes
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Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
Beginning
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
Age and Aging
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Quotations
“The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.”
VerifiedNight and Day (1978), Ruth, Act I · evidenceNewspapers
“It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
VerifiedJumpers (1972), Dotty, Act I · evidenceVoting
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Tom Stoppard; no source in their known works. · evidenceResponsibility
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
VerifiedRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) · evidenceEternity
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Tom Stoppard; no source in their known works. · evidenceKnowledge
“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
VerifiedRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) · evidenceTragedies
“Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.”
Life and Living
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
VerifiedInterview, The Guardian [London] (18 March 1988) · evidenceJournalism and Journalists
“I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
Sports