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Peter Shaffer Quotes

1926–2016 England

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his plays The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus (he adapted the last two for their screen versions).

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That's the main trouble with the two nations: bad Brits are snobs, bad Americans are slobs.

Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (1990)

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

[to Father Vogler] I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Shaffer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.