Top 35 Estragon Quotes
#1. Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
Samuel Beckett
#2. Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh ... (He reflects.) We wouldn't have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?
Samuel Beckett
#3. Estragon: What about hanging ourselves?
Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
Samuel Beckett
#5. VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.
Samuel Beckett
#6. Estragon: we lost our rights?
vladimir: we got rid of them.
Samuel Beckett
#7. Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
Samuel Beckett
#8. Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
Samuel Beckett
#9. VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's go.
They do not move.
Samuel Beckett
#10. Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
Samuel Beckett
#11. VLADIMIR: Well? What do we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer.
Samuel Beckett
#12. ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think.
Samuel Beckett
#13. I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
Barry Humphries
#14. Estragon: They're too big
Vladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day
Samuel Beckett
#15. POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
Samuel Beckett
#16. VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.
Samuel Beckett
#17. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.
John Green
#18. Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.
Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?
Estragon: I don't know.
Samuel Beckett
#19. Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy.
Samuel Beckett
#20. Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.
Samuel Beckett
#21. Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?
Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.
Samuel Beckett
#22. Pozzo: I don't seem to be able ... (long hesitation) to depart.
Estragon: Such is life.
Samuel Beckett
#24. She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.
Jojo Moyes
#25. Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
Mark Twain
#26. It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.
Peter Cameron
#27. I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few ... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
Joyce Carol Oates
#28. It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Tom Brokaw
#29. Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...
Nan Fairbrother
#30. Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#32. I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#33. Such: From the first morning after the move, when she
Gillian Flynn
#34. James might have enjoyed the day, but Hawk's mood was black and the girl's even blacker. The camp was like a battle line.
Kat Martin
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