02UndatedThe unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
03UndatedMany plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
06UndatedThat's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
07UndatedA sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
09UndatedWe live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
11UndatedMy advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
12UndatedComparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
15UndatedNurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
16UndatedIf a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
17UndatedHope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
21UndatedI know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
22UndatedMany who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
23UndatedMarriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
24UndatedSeek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.Thornton Wilder / quote ↗
