Том Стоппард цитаты страница 2

„Смерть, конечно большое несчастье, но все же не самое большое, если выбирать между ней и бессмертием.“

„Проблема людей в том, что почти никто больше не ведет себя естественно, все ведут себя так, как от них того ждут, как если бы они прочитали о себе или увидели себя в кино. Вся жизнь сейчас такая. Нельзя даже думать естественно, потому что для тебя уже выбрано мнение, которое ты должен выражать. Оригинальность растрачена. И все-таки тяжело отказаться от веры в неповторимость человека.“

„Розенкранц: И это всё, на что они способны, — умирать?
Актёр: Нет, нет — они ещё красиво убивают. Некоторые убивают даже красивей, чем умирают. Остальные лучше умирают, чем убивают. Это труппа.“

Том Стоппард книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

„Человек, разговаривающий сам с собой, но со смыслом, не более безумен, чем человек, разговаривающий с другими, но несущий околесицу.“

“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?… A short, blunt human pyramid…?”

Том Стоппард: Цитаты на английском языке

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Источник: Arcadia

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”

“The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.”

“It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Источник: Arcadia

“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Источник: Arcadia

“Give us this day our daily mask.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Uncertainty is the normal state.”

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order”

1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922)

“He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Источник: Arcadia

“You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Septimus. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore.

Thomasina. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Carr, Act I
Источник: Travesties (1974)

“Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!

Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Act II
Источник: Arcadia (1993)

“Well, we'll know better next time.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Источник: Arcadia

“I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.”

Tom Stoppard книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

Tom Stoppard The Invention of Love

Источник: The Invention of Love

“Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.”

“War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act I, scene II
The Real Thing (1982)

“Dotty: Archie says the Church is a monument to irrationality.
George: … The National Gallery is a monument to irrationality! Every concert hall is a monument to irrationality! — and so is a nicely kept garden, or a lover's favour, or a home for stray dogs! You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Tzara, Act I
Travesties (1974)

“Alexander: I myself was educated in Italy. My doctorate in philosophy is from the University of Padua.
Renne: Really? Philosophy?
Alexander: My dissertation was on worms.
Renne: Worms the philosopher?
Alexander: No, just worms.
Renne: Ah, the philosophy of worms.
Alexander: Not at all. Worms have no philosophy, as far as is known.”

Tom Stoppard Jumpers

Act I
Jumpers (1972)

“Mageeba: Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press, Mr. Wagner?
Wagner: Not exactly, sir, no.
Mageeba: I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives.”

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)