Assembled by Sean Gannon
Uncle Dave is on hiatus for this installment. Here are some quotes from famous plays. Can you guess what they’re from?
1. “Don’t mind her, lad. It doesn’t mean anything. When she
gets to the stage where she gives the old crazy excuse about her hands she’s
gone far away from us.”
2. “Well? Shall we go?” “Yes, let’s go.” [ They
do not move. ]
3. Funny, y’know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments,
and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”
4. “She only pretended to faint, Your Excellency. They’re all marvelous
pretenders.”
5. “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital
thing. Mr. Worthington, what explanation can you offer to me for pretending
to have a brother?”
6. “If this fellow here hasn’t got a nerve! A man who calls himself
a character comes and asks me who I am!”
7. “Your injunction to be good and yet to live was a thunderbolt: It has
torn me in two / I can’t tell how it was / But to be good to others and
myself at the same time / I could not do it.”
8. “It isn’t a flood, it’s not a tornado, Mother. I’m
just not popular like you were in Blue Mountain.... Mother’s afraid I’m
going to be an old maid.”
9. “Awww, that was nice. I think we’ve been having a ... a real
good evening ... all things considered ... We’ve sat around, and got to
know each other, and had fun and games ... curl-up-on-the-floor, for example...”
10. “Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my
existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you ... saves lives.”