Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

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

Born

Children

World

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

God

Longing

Mute

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.

Funny

Humor

Taken

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can’t see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can’t jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force – my horsepower, if you like – is too little.

Average

Littles

Track

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

Children

Purpose

Thinking

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.

Dark

Light

Play

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Can Do

Thinking

Worship

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Beauty Of Life

Feels

Made

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.

Class

Fear

Writing

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Art

Furnaces

Goodness

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Beauty Of Life

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Can Do

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Children

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Dark

Devil

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Extraordinary Things

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Fall

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Frustration

Funny

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God

Goodness

Grieving

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Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

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

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

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.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

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.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

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.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

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