Tom Stoppard Men Quotations

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!