Top 38 Quotes by Thornton Wilder

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.