Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Quote by Tom Stoppard

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The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Eternity's a terrible thought

Eternity's a terrible thought

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...