Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Quotes

George : Good. Better. Best. Bested.

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Honey : I'm gonna be sick.
George : Ah yeah that's nice.
Honey : I'm gonna die.
George : Good, good. Go right ahead.

Movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George : Martha's got money because Martha's father's second wife, not Martha's mother but after Martha's mother died, was a very old lady with warts who was very rich.
Nick : She was a witch!
George : She was a good witch, and she married the white mouse with the tiny red eyes and he must have nibbled her warts or something like that, because she went up in a puff of smoke almost immediately. Poof!
Nick : Poof!
George : Poof! And all that was left, aside from some wart medicine, was a big fat will.
Nick : Your wife never mentioned a stepmother.
George : Maybe it isn't true.

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Nick : Who did the painting?
George : Some Greek with a mustache Martha attacked one night.
Nick : It's got a...
George : Quiet intensity?
Nick : Well, no, a...
George : Well then, a certain noisy relaxed quality maybe?
Nick : No, what I meant was...
George : How about a quietly noisy relaxed intensity?

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George : Now that's it! You can take over a few classes from the older men, but until you start plowing pertinent wives, you really aren't working. The broad, inviting avenue to man's job is through his wife, and don't you forget it.
Nick : And I'll be your wife has the broadest, most inviting avenue of the whole damn campus. [ long pause ]
Nick : Her father president and all.

Movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George : You can sit around with the gin running out of your mouth; you can humiliate me; you can tear me to pieces all night, that's perfectly okay, that's all right.
Martha : You can stand it!
George : I cannot stand it!
Martha : You can stand it, you married me for it!

Movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha : A drowning man takes down those nearest.

Movie: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?