Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. - Peter Shaffer
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.
- Peter Shaffer
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. - Peter Shaffer
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
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 a… - Peter Shaffer
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 a…
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything. - Peter Shaffer
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves. - Peter Shaffer
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. - Peter Shaffer
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? - Peter Shaffer
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
I was an accomplice in my own frustration. - Peter Shaffer
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. - Peter Shaffer
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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