Guildenstern Quotes

#1. ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

William Shakespeare

#2. HAMLET
I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?
GUILDENSTERN
My lord, I cannot.
HAMLET
I pray you.
GUILDENSTERN
Believe me, I cannot.
HAMLET
I do beseech you.
GUILDENSTERN
I know no touch of it, my lord.
HAMLET
It is as easy as lying.

William Shakespeare

#3. Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Tom Stoppard

#4. Tom Stoppard was refreshingly candid when, after the successful premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he was asked what the play was about: It's about to make me a lot of money.

Clive James

#5. Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something
constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid ... ?

Tom Stoppard

#6. Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

#7. Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

Lucy Beckett

#8. Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Now I know why I've always compared every woman I've ever kissed to you.

K. Bromberg

#10. Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

Elizabeth Hurley

#11. Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

Elijah Wood

#12. ROS (mournfully): Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.
GUIL: What?
ROS: England.
GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean.

Tom Stoppard

#13. I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

David Cone

#14. And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I can't sleep if there's murderers on the loose!" cried another guest. "Amen, brother!" said another person. "If a crime has been committed, then it's our duty to stand around in our pajamas in the name of justice!

Lemony Snicket

#16. The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

Margaret Atwood

#17. I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Jennifer Aniston

#18. Goddess," he said, "I would strongly advise you to continue this journey as you were - in your carriage." "Vazkor," I said, "I would strongly advise you not to advise me.

Tanith Lee

#19. If you have one person you're influenced by, everyone will say you're the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

Austin Kleon

#20. I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Adam Braun

#21. We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Jeff Bezos

#22. The finest leaders are those who listen more than they talk.

R.A. Salvatore