Thornton Wilder People Quotations

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.