Waiting For Godot Waiting Quotes

#1. VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!

Samuel Beckett

#2. Waiting for Godot

Cary Elwes

#3. We all are born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett

#4. We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#5. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Carolyn Wells

#6. In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Mark Twain

#7. Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Ian McKellen

#8. Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on paper in my direction, as I've done. I am so unhappy it's amusing.

Maryse Holder

#9. The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

Judy Grahn

#10. What are we doing here, that is the question.

Samuel Beckett

#11. I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Alex Kingston

#12. My Halloween costume is Godot. I'm not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I'm on my way.

Wynne McLaughlin

#13. Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

E.L. Konigsburg

#14. I just can't muster up enough pride for a town whose most cosmopolitan area is the Taco Bell car park on a saturday night

Chris Colfer

#15. In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

Charlie Munger

#16. 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

#17. But somehow or other my intimacy with them was always strained and soon ended of itself. Once, indeed, I did have a friend. But I was

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

Richard Sherman

#19. Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

Michael Schultz

#20. Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.

Samuel Beckett

#21. E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move)

Samuel Beckett

#22. I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.

Patrick Stewart

#23. 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

#24. When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#25. When a man can't trust his eyes what does he fall back on . . . and what does the choice he makes reveal about him?

Mark Lawrence

#26. To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

Samuel Beckett

#27. Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

Samuel Beckett

#28. I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

Michel Foucault

#29. All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett

#30. Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Gianfranco Fini

#31. When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.

Kit Harington

#32. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

Vivian Mercier