Thornton Wilder

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#envy #every #home #pride

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#condition #does #eternal #good #high

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bribe #housekeeper #make #she #think

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#behold #dramatists #employ #fitted #learned

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#dead #land #living #love #meaning

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#discovers #exploration #future #him #his

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#aware #choose #decisions #forced #freedom

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#about #much #talk #thing

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#child #dog #less #lifetime #lost

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#energy #exists #itself #love is #own