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PostSubject: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyThu Dec 13, 2012 1:47 pm

I'd love to hear of your favourite quotes from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Here's mine from Macbeth,

"That will never be!
Who can recruit the forest?
Bid the tree,
Unfix hius earth-bound root?
Sweet bodements, good!"

Now for yours, ye literary bunch!
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyThu Dec 13, 2012 6:41 pm

Could a friendly mod possibly fix the wording of this Shakespearean tragedy of a thread title - typo on 'Quotes'.

Thanks,

SM.

edit:fixed! TW.
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyMon Dec 24, 2012 5:28 am

This gem from As You Like It is my absolute favourite;
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". - (Act V, Scene I).
A variation on "A wise man knows he is not wise."
Other famous personages have said much the same thing; Plato and Saint Thomas Aquinas to name a couple of other notables.

KING HENRY V:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;

Macbeth

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." - (Act V, Scene V).
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptySun Jan 14, 2018 7:50 pm

A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, 1)

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
   Love can transpose to form and dignity.
   Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
   And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
   Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
   Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste;
   And therefore is Love said to be a child,
   Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.
   As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
   So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere;

I'd say pretty much all of Hamlet, but I always love how Hamlet pulls Polonius' leg:

Hamlet (II, 2)

POLONIUS.
Do you know me, my lord?

HAMLET.
Excellent well. You’re a fishmonger.

[...]

POLONIUS.
How say you by that? [Aside.] Still harping on my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger. He is far gone, far gone. And truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I’ll speak to him again.—What do you read, my lord?

HAMLET.
Words, words, words.

The classic, III, 1

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.

The Tempest (I, 2)

You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse.

Romeo and Juliet

'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
Thou art thy selfe, though not a Mountague,
What's Mountague? it is nor hand nor foote,
Nor arme, nor face, O be some other name
Belonging to a man.
What? in a names that which we call a Rose,
By any other word would smell as sweete,
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo cal'd,
Retaine that deare perfection which he owes,
Without that title Romeo, doffe thy name,
And for thy name which is no part of thee,
Take all my selfe

Macbeth

Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill
Shall come against him.
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We who are so young, shall never live as long nor be as wise

King Lear.
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyFri Jan 26, 2018 8:08 pm

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

The Tempest I, 2
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyTue May 04, 2021 3:38 pm

" To Thine Own Self Be True "   From Hamlet
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyFri May 07, 2021 10:49 pm

For years I think most of mine are whatever Christopher Plummer's General Chang quotes in Star Trek VI. Just because it's Plummer.

"Parting is such sweet sorrow!"

"Prick us do we not bleed, tickle us do we not laugh...wrong us shall we not revenge."

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyFri May 07, 2021 10:56 pm

with his final,........ " To be or Not to be "
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PostSubject: Re: Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time?   Favourite Shakespeare Quotes of all time? EmptyFri May 07, 2021 11:54 pm

For sure. Again, as a kid was when I first saw this and so this was the first Shakespeare I recall.

Not too long ago there was some Shakespeare anniversary or something and various actors like David Tennant were on stage doing their own intepretation of to be or not to be and Prince Charles walks on to do his. The picture of him, hand out I captioned: "Alright bitches, this is how it's done."

Personally, I don't ever do Shakespeare. It passes over my head but Plummer and Shatner, weirdly, have helped break it down. In the fan-film Free Enterprise, Shatner does this speech to a woman he wants to chat up: "She is a woman therefore to be wooed...", or some such. What seals the deal, is his 'rap' of "No Tears for Caesar."

"Cry tears...cry tears...for Caesar..."
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