If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Quote by Thornton Wilder

Topics: Thornton Wilder Quotes

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put...

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put...

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your...

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your...

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different...

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different...

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

A play visibly represents pure existing.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment...