Source: Amadeus
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Famous Peter Shaffer Quotes
Source: Amadeus
“Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.”
Source: The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer
“I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.”
“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.”
“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
Source: Equus
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
Source: The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer
Source: Equus
“Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?”
Source: Equus
Source: Equus
Source: Equus
“What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?”
Source: Equus
“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”
Source: Amadeus: A Drama
“The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.”
“What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”
Source: Amadeus
“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.”
Source: Equus
“I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.”
“I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.”
“The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.”
“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”
“I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.”