Waiting for Godot Quotes

VLADIMIR Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. One— ESTRAGON Our what? VLADIMIR Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searc...

(Estragon with a supreme effort succeeds in pulling off his boot. He peers inside it, feels about inside it, turns it upside down, shakes it, looks on the ground to see if anything has fallen out,...

VLADIMIR Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned. (1.64)

Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir. ESTRAGON (giving...

VLADIMIR Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now it's too late. They wouldn't even let us up. (Estragon tears at his boot.) What are...

VLADIMIR (musingly) The last moment . . . (He meditates.) Hope deferred maketh the something sick, who said that? (1.32)

VLADIMIR I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever. ESTRAGON Me too. (1.4-5)

VLADIMIR Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned. (1.64)

VLADIMIR And they didn't beat you? ESTRAGON Beat me? Certainly they beat me. VLADIMIR The same lot as usual? ESTRAGON The same? I don't know. (1.12-15)

ESTRAGON What's all this about? Abused who? VLADIMIR The Saviour. ESTRAGON Why? VLADIMIR Because he wouldn't save them. ESTRAGON From hell? VLADIMIR Imbecile! From death. ESTRAGON I thought...