Quotes Thornton Wilder

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an acti...

A play visibly represents pure existing....

An incinerator is a writer's best friend....

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must de...

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of da...

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

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

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, on...

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stan...

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

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

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide....

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather ...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a wor...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes....

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own valu...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning o...

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The act...

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

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a hous...

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a ho...

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

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

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the m...