Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilderwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 April 1897
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
truth honesty world
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
adventure wish tests
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish...
life perfect persons
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
intelligence favors conditions
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
humor judging action
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
time artist years
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.
thinking-about-you employed knows
Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
promise
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
men vices virtue
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
funny marriage thinking
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
problem revival persuasive
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
men splendid old-man
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
rip hate house
How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
teach comparison
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.