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Quotes from Travesties — Tom Stoppard

1937–2025 Czech Republic

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

Travesties (1974)

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

Travesties (1974)

I had no idea Gwendolen knew any foreign languages, and I am not sure that I approve. It's the sort of thing that can only broaden a girl's mind.

Travesties (1974)

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.

Travesties (1974)

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

Travesties (1974)

Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.

Travesties (1974)

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