The 41+ Peter Shaffer Quotes

What Was Evident Was That Mozart Was Simply Transcribing Music Completely Finished In His Head. And Finished As Most Music Is Never Finished. Displace One Note And There Would Be Diminishment. Displace One Phrase And Structure Would Fall. I Was Staring Through The Cage Of Those Meticulous Ink Strokes At Absolute Beauty.

You Can't Always Let People Do Their Own Thing.

My Actual Childhood, As Opposed To My Adolescence, Was Not Spent In London.

I Speak For All Mediocrities In The World. I Am Their Champion. I Am Their Patron Saint.

Figaro Is A Bad Play. It Stirs Up Hatred Between The Classes. In France, It Has Caused Nothing But Bitterness. My Own Dear Sister,antoinette, Writes Me That She Is Beginning To Be Frightened Of Her Own People.

All My Wife Has Ever Taken From The Mediterranean - From That Whole Vast Intuitive Culture - Are Four Bottles Of Chianti To Make Into Lamps, And Two China Condiment Donkeys Labelled Sally And Peppy.

Look... To Go Through Life And Call It Yours - Your Life - You First Have To Get Your Own Pain. Pain That's Unique To You. You Can't Just Dip Into The Common Bin And Say 'that's Enough!'.

Rehearsing A Play Is Making The Word Flesh. Publishing A Play Is Reversing The Process.

I Think I Did Have Fantasies About Being An Actor. In Fact, I Know I Did.

I Was Born In Liverpool In England, And I Lived There For The First Nine Years Of My Life.

Black Comedy Is A Farce That Is Played In The Dark, As You Know, With The Lights Full On. It's The Chinese Convention Of Reversing Light And Dark, And Exactly Where Anybody Is At Any Given Moment Is The Play.

It's An Extraordinary Thing About Mozart Is That You Never Tire Of Him... He Never Bores Me, And He Doesn't... Not Only Bore Me, That's Too Strong A Word.