Author: Thornton Wilder

Quotes

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

- Thornton Wilder

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

- Thornton Wilder

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

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

- Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

- Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

- Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

- Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

- Thornton Wilder

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

- Thornton Wilder

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

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

- Thornton Wilder

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