20 of the best book quotes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead“We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school.”“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”“The colours red, blue and green are real. ” Guildenstern: Indecent. “Actors! Guildenstern: Suspicious. character. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. Then a messenger arrived. Tom Stoppard. “Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.” When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. There must have been one. “We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” They're all we have to go on.” If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”“It never occurred to me at all.
Guildenstern: They *were* close. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.” If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” Blood is compulsory. “Words, words. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Guildenstern: “For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.” Introduction; Summary; Themes; Characters; Analysis; Quotes. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Grove Press edition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead published in 1967. The mechanics of cheap melodrama! Before we know the word for it. Ay, my lord. “Eternity is a terrible thought. Rosencrantz: She went to him... Guildenstern: Too close. They stay upon your patience. concepts.
They’re all we have to go on.” author. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. By using our site you consent to our use of cookies. I mean, where's it going to end?” “A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. book. We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Navigation. I mean, where’s it going to end?”“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death?”“Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction and time is its only measure.”“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. III,2,1988. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quotes And time is its only measure.” 20 of the best book quotes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead #1 “We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school.” author. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quotes Showing 1-30 of 95 “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until--"My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn."
Guildenstern: Don't think I haven't. But somehow we missed it.”“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. “The colours red, blue and green are real. Your support helps us continue to discover and share incredible kids books! By Tom Stoppard. Guildenstern. We must be born with an intuition of mortality.”“Be happy -- if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. “Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned.
Tom Stoppard. Language and Communication Isolation Manipulation Fear Foolishness and Folly Passivity Versions of Reality Fate and Free Will Mortality . "A horse with an arrow in its forehead! Guildenstern: It looks bad. Act 1 Quotes The sun came up about as often as it went down, in the long run, and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher.
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