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 Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:07 pm
Shakespeare is famous for his poetic quotes.
My favourite have to be:
"Here is much to do with hate, but more with love,
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
Of anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright-smoke; cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
Romeo and Juliet- W.S
What are your favourite quotes?
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:22 am
This is one of my favorites. It's from 'Hamlet' Act II, Scene II:
"...I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:18 pm
Hmmm.... I love Shakespeare, so I have a lot of 'favorite' quotes and passages. Here are a few that come to mind at the moment:
If it will feed
nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath
disgraced me and hind'red me half a million;
laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains,
scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains,
cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And
what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew
eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,
senses, affections, passions, fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to
the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and
summer as a Christian is? If you p***k us, do we
not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If
you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong
us, shall we not revenge? If you are like you in
the rest, we will resemble you in that.
3.1 45-58 The Merchant of Venice
I just think that Shylock's speech is so moving and profound when one considers racism, sexism, etc.
I also love Menenius in Coriolanus:
What do you think, you, the great toe of this assembly?
~ I the great toe? Why the great toe?~
For that, being one o' th' lowest, basest, poorest of this most wise rebellion, though goest foremost.
And lines from King Lear are dear to me because they are so beautifully structured, as in the following:
These late eclipses of the sun
and moon portend no good to us. Though the
wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus,
yet nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent
effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers
divide: in cities, mutinities; in countries, discord;
in palaces, treason; and the bond crack'd t'wixt
son and father. This villain of mine comes under
the prediction: there's son against father. The
King falls from bias of nature: there's father
against child. we have seen the best of our time:
machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our
graves. Find our this villain Edmund, it shall
lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the noble
and true hearted Kent banish'd: his offence,
honesty! 'Tis strange.
And before I stop myself, I can't post favorite quotes without mentioning Hamlet:
O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!
A little more than kin and less than kind.
And the little spat between Hamlet and his mother:
Now, mother, what's the matter?
Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
Mother, you have my father much offended.
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Why, how now, Hamlet!
What's the matter now?
Have you forgot me?
No, by the rood, not so:
You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;
And - would it were not so! - you are my mother.
Because we all turn into little kids when our parents get mad at us. xp . Of course, Hamlet's a verbal genius which makes the event much more interesting...
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:41 pm
I love the St. Crispian's Day speech from Henry V.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!
For he who sheds his blood with me this day shall by my brother.
Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition."
Other favs include Julius Caesar's lines:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
JC II ii 32-3
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:14 am
My favorite quotes from Romeo and Juliet are:
When we're first introduced to Romeo, Act I, scene 1
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that which, having, makes them short.
One of Friar Lawrence's warnings to Romeo, Act II, scene 6
Friar: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
And finally, when Juliet stabs herself (yes, I know it's kind of twisted of me, but I like this quote), Act V, scene 3
Juliet: Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:43 pm
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother."
Aaron the Moor: "Villain, I have done thy mother!"
and
Aaron the Moor [after stabbing the nurse] "Weeke-weeke!" (also spelled Weke-weke)
Both are from Act IV Scene II of Titus Andronicus... I know they aren't very intellectual or moving.. but they are memorable. "Weeke-weeke" has become my senior quote ^ ^
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:22 pm
 SOME favorite quotes...
"Et tu Brute?"
"Let her paint an inch thick to this favor she must come"
"Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you p***k us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? "
""Once more unto the breach, dear friends"
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:09 am
Ooh, too many. In high school, my best friend and I did a scene from 'Much Ado About Nothing' for our drama class, though, and I think Beatrice and Benedick have some of the BEST banter, full stop.
=^__^=
Anneko
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:42 pm
Erm, I don't have my complete works of Shakespeare in front of me, and memory and I are not known to be close friends, so don't hate me for approximating.
"The first thing we shall do, we shall kill all the lawyers!" ~ I don't even remember which play this was from, or who said it. Help?
"A pox! On both your houses!" ~ Mercutio, Romeo & Juliet. I love this line. To bits. No reason, in particular. Just love.
"Do you thumb your nose at me, Sir?"
"Not at you, Sir, but I do thumb my nose."
~Again, I don't remember who said it. Was it Romeo's friends, or Juliet's cousins?
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:20 am
"I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love,--
And yet a place of high respect with me,--
Than to be used as you use your dog?"
-A Midsummer Night's Dream(Helena)
"Peace?..I hate the word,as I hate Hell,all Montagues and thee.."
-Romeo and Juliet(Tybalt)
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:22 am
DaBonster "Do you thumb your nose at me, Sir?""Not at you, Sir, but I do thumb my nose."~ Again, I don't remember who said it. Was it Romeo's friends, or Juliet's cousins?
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:42 pm
Beyond a shadow of a doubt:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all in mended,
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding than a dream,
Gentles do not reprehend:
If you do pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call.
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
I read that first in Secondary School and loved Pucks character. I think this is one of the best ending to any Shakespeare play I have read to date, because it fits so well with the rest of the play and really brings the audience in and makes them feel as though they are part of the story, the magic.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:05 pm
My favorite quote from my favorite play "The Merchant of Venice"
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.
Cold, indeed; and labour lost:
Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
I so love the the whole idea of choosing the right casket to "win Portia's hand in marriage". I think nowadays more than ever we should take to heart the wisdom of this play!
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:37 pm
One of my favorite people in shakespearew has to be Dogsberry!!!
"Neighbor you are tedious!"
"If I had the tediousness of a king I would wish it ALL on your good self."
"All your tediousness on me?"
Much Ado about nothing Dogsberry and the uncle of Beatrice.
Another one from Much ado about nothing
"When I said I would die a bachlor... I did not think I would live 'til I were married!"
One more from Much Ado is "No the world must be peopled!!!"
"Oh what fools these motals be!" The fawn from midsummers nights dream
Gotta love Shakespeare!!!
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:00 pm
My favorite quote would have to be Prospero's from The Tempest.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
I also like Ariel's song.
"Full fathom five, thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change,
into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell...
Now I hear the ding-dong bell..."
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