Thornton Wilder Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Thornton Wilder
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“Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.”
Managers Quotes
“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
Providence Quotes
“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”
Safety Quotes
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Romance Quotes
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Love Quotes
“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
Vices Quotes
“Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.”
Promises Quotes
“Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Survival Quotes
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.”
Enjoyment Quotes
“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
Literature Quotes
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Love Quotes
“Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.”
Marriage Quotes
“Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.”
Vice Quotes