Top 275 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

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

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.