Peter Shaffer Quotes

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's ...

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will ...

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I...

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter t...

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.