Tom Stoppard

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

— Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

— Tom Stoppard

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Tom Stoppard

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

— Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

— Tom Stoppard

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

— Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

— Tom Stoppard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

— Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

— Tom Stoppard

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

— Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

— Tom Stoppard

The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

— Tom Stoppard

Commit actions and the ideas will follow.

— Tom Stoppard

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

— Tom Stoppard