These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.


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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
THORNTON WILDER
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arres...
THORNTON WILDER
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethov...
BILLY WILDER
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
THORNTON WILDER
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
THORNTON WILDER
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high o...
THORNTON WILDER
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct...
GENE WILDER
When we got back to my room, Gilda gave the dog a bowl of water and set some newspaper down in the b...
GENE WILDER
Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who los...
THORNTON WILDER
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking dur...
DOUGLAS WILDER
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su...
GENE WILDER
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many ...
DOUGLAS WILDER
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different fro...
THORNTON WILDER
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
THORNTON WILDER
Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER
Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER
We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ...
THORNTON WILDER
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
THORNTON WILDER
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to s...
THORNTON WILDER
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...
THORNTON WILDER
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER
There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif...
CHERRYN WILDER
It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (...
BILLY WILDER
I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
DEONTAY WILDER
I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go righ...
DEONTAY WILDER
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER
People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas...
DEONTAY WILDER
He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly dis...
DOUGLAS WILDER
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper
BILLY WILDER
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black ...
DOUGLAS WILDER
She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hand...
JASINDA WILDER
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
THORNTON WILDER
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER
There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe...
DENNIS WILDER
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a...
GENE WILDER
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER