Three Plays Quotes

“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“our town we like to know the facts about everybody.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“the theatre was the greatest of all the arts.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“To survive, a story must arouse wonder.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“War’s a pleasure—do you hear me?—War’s a pleasure compared to what faces us now: trying to build up a peacetime with you in the middle of it.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town, The Matchmaker, and The Skin of Our Teeth

“Three cheers have invented the wheel.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“keep them warm burn everything except Shakespeare.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“the master of the house don’t pinch decent, self-respecting girls when he meets them in a dark corridor. I mention no names and make no charges.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“children are a thing only a parent can stand,”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“we came through the depression by the skin of our teeth;”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“of ignorance;”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“You not only live it; but you watch yourself living”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“All I can say is, Emily, don’t.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Live people don’t understand, do they?”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“weaned away.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense. . .”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“can remember when a dog could go to sleep all day in the middle of Main Street and nothing come along to disturb him.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“That men aren’t naturally good; but girls are.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“tell the truth and shame the devil.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“There’s a lot of common sense in some superstitions, George.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Well, I heard a lot of the hours struck”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“perfectly awful things. Farces,—that’s what they are!”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“There I was in the Congregational Church marryin’ a total stranger.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Can’t tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“You’ve got to love life to have life, and you’ve got to have life to love life. . . . It’s what they call a vicious circle.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“Yes. I declare—easy as kittens.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“is a categorical imperative commanding you to absorb what it is you love and make it yours.”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth

“That mask of Wilder’s”
― Thornton Wilder, Three Plays: Our Town/The Matchmaker/The Skin of Our Teeth