Thornton Wilder Quotes - Page 6

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

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

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Heaven's my destination.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

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

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.