Tom Stoppard Citations
Tom Stoppard: Citations en anglais
"Tom Stoppard," profile by Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker (1977-12-19).
Interviews and profiles
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
Misattributed
Source: Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (1985-03-17), Section 1, page 38.
Misattributed
Source: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.
Tom Stoppard Travesties
Act I
Travesties (1974)
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Darryl Hannah http://www.idolpleasures.com/daryl_hannah.shtml.
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
From principles is derived probability, but truth is obtained only from facts. - Jesse Olney (1798 - 1872), The National Preceptor (Goodwin, 1830), Lesson LXXXV: "Select Sentences," rule # 19 (p. 171).
Misattributed
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)
“Good things, when short, are twice as good.”
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Wordly Wisdom (Oráculo Manual) Maxim #105 http://www.humanistictexts.org/gracian.htm.
Tom Stoppard Travesties
Carr, Act I
Travesties (1974)
“Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it's progress”
The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2002)
Misattributed
Source: Margaret Mead, quoted in "Growing Old in America: An Introduction with Margaret Mead" by Grace Hechinger, Family Circle (1977-07-26), p. 27.
Tom Stoppard Night and Day
Milne, Act I
Night and Day (1978)
“Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.”
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences.
“I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.”
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits.
Tom Stoppard Night and Day
Wagner, Act I
Night and Day (1978)
Tom Stoppard The Invention of Love
Housman, Act I
The Invention of Love (1997)
Tom Stoppard Night and Day
Mageeba, Act II
Night and Day (1978)
Tom Stoppard Arcadia
Act I
Arcadia (1993)
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Seneca, Epistle 88, as seen in the following: "You may sweep all these theories in with the superfluous troops of 'liberal' studies; the one class of men give me a knowledge that will be of no use to me, the other class do away with any hope of attaining knowledge. It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. One set of philosophers offers no light by which I may direct my gaze toward the truth; the other digs out my very eyes and leaves me blind." Seneca: Epistle 88 http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_2.html#%E2%80%98LXXXVIII1
Tom Stoppard The Real Thing
Max, Act I, scene I
The Real Thing (1982)
Herzen
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)
Tom Stoppard The Invention of Love
Housman, Act I.
The Invention of Love (1997)
“Alexander: How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still. tnt in love.”
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)
