Just a few random quotes from one of my favorite plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. I love how Stoppard plays with the language of his characters. The audience is allowed to ascribe multiple meanings from very simplistic sentences.
Player: We'll stoop to anything that's your bent.
Guil: Give us this day our daily mask.
Guil: Retentive - he's a very retentive king, a royal retainer...
Guil: A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."
Ros: They'll have us hanging about till we're dead. At least. And the weather will change.
Guil: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Ros: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guil: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not being. You can't not-be on a boat.
Ros: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guil: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats.
Ros: I wish I was dead. (Considers the drop.) I could jump over the side. That would put a spoke in their wheel.
Guil: Unless they're counting on it.
Ros: I shall remain on board. That'll put a spoke in their wheel.
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