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38 quotes by Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth —and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is... →

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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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

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

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

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

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

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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.

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can... →

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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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