Tom Stoppard on Death
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Tom Stoppard, catalogued under death, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Tom Stoppard, entry #14768: "I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical."
Attributed to Tom Stoppard, entry #69237: "I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
4 Quotes by Tom Stoppard on Death
"I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical."
"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
"Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead."
"An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer."