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Peter Shaffer
5 quotes
“The men climb the Andes.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Act I, sc. viii. (1964).
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Equus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1973] 1984), p. 8.
“Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In The New York Times, April 13, 1975.
“That's the main trouble with the two nations: bad Brits are snobs, bad Americans are slobs.”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (1990)