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Peter Shaffer Quotes



Quotes by Peter Shaffer - (13 quotes)

Peter Shaffer - From the Complaining category:

Nowadays, people do tend to blame their parents for everything. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Fantasy category:

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. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Frustration category:

I was an accomplice in my own frustration. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Goodness category:

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Imagination category:

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Life category:

The trouble is, if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Love category:

Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Masters category:

-Amadeus: A Play...
I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends - and I from Legends created only the ordinary! (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Mediums category:

If London is a watercolour, New York is an oil painting. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Religion category:

-Amadeus: A Play...
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons? (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Time category:

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

Peter Shaffer - From the Words category:

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. (Peter Shaffer)

Peter Shaffer - From the Writing category:

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. (Peter Shaffer)