If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

—Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard

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Sir Tom Stoppard (; born Tomáš Sträussler; 3 July 1937 – 29 November 2025) was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical...

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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

—Tom Stoppard

memory progress smell burning bridges

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

—Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

—Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

—Tom Stoppard

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

—Tom Stoppard

More quotations tagged with “common sense”

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

—Matthew Arnold

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

—Lord Chesterfield

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

—Douglas Adams

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