Equus key quotes

Question 1

Alan, Act 1, Scene 14

Answer 1

Behold—I give you Equus, my only begotten son.

Question 2

Dysart, Act 1, Scene 18

Answer 2

We were brisk in our wooing, brisk in our wedding, brisk in our disappointment.

Question 3

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes [and] the dead stare in a million adults.

Answer 3

Dysart, Act 1, Scene 19

Question 4

Dysart, Act 2, Scene 25

Answer 4

Can you think of anything worse … than [to] take away their worship?

Question 5

Every time I kissed her—He was in the way.

Answer 5

Alan, Act 2, Scene 33

Question 6

“The doubts have been there for years, piling up steadily in this dreary place. It’s only the extremity of this case that’s made them active.

Answer 6

Martin Dysart—Act I, Scene I

Question 7

“Bloody religion—it’s our only real problem in this house, but it’s insuperable; I don’t mind admitting it

Answer 7

Frank Strang—Act I, Scene 7

Question 8

“I’m jealous, Hesther. Jealous of Alan Strang.”

Answer 8

Martin Dysart—Act II, Scene 25

Question 9

Alan Strang—Act II, Scene 34

Answer 9

Equus… Noble Equus… Faithful and True… God-slave… Though—God—Seest—NOTHING!”