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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:30 am
What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?
Mine is "Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm
I love so many, but one of my favorite is "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. / For he today that sheds his blood with me/ Shall be my brother. Be he n'er so vile/ This day shall gentle his condidtion!" Henry V act IV iii 60-63, a clip from the Saint Crispian's day speech.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:51 pm
Mine's:
Marry sir, they have commited false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves!!
Dogberry rocks! (from Much Ado)
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:57 pm
Currently.... "You have his father's love, Demetrius, let me have Hermia's! What- do you marry him?"
But then and again, I'm biased towards anything Midsummer right now. (it's tech week!)
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:20 pm
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.
~~~ Macbeth ~~~
I think this quote is so gorgeous!
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:02 pm
bardlover I love so many, but one of my favorite is "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. / For he today that sheds his blood with me/ Shall be my brother. Be he n'er so vile/ This day shall gentle his condidtion!" Henry V act IV iii 60-63, a clip from the Saint Crispian's day speech.
Puck:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,--
That you have but slumber'd here,
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpants tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call:
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
--A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act V, Scene I, Lines 411-427
One of my favorite quotes.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:38 am
I have two favorites.
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound
(enter Juliet)
But, soft! What light through yonders window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon"
and (kind of, but not my top favorite)
"Neither a borrow not a lender be" (if that is one)
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:07 pm
KING LEAR:
Is it but this? a tardiness in nature
Which of ten leaves the history unspoke
That it intends to do? My Lord of Burgundy,
What say you to the lady? Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?
She is herself a dowry.
Beautiful. smile
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:38 am
So many lovely quotes! It's so hard to choose.
"It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul:
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light."
Othello, Act 5 Scene 2
"--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 appears no other thing to
me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. ...
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:38 pm
masterlinkboy I have two favorites. "He jests at scars that never felt a wound (enter Juliet) But, soft! What light through yonders window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" and (kind of, but not my top favorite) "Neither a borrow not a lender be" (if that is one) I have to say my most favorite line is Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, Line 2 "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:05 pm
While i was preforming in the temest my co-actor who played prospero had one line that became one on my favorite Shakespearean quotes:
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on "
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:50 pm
Got another favorite quote! It's from The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1. It's the "quality of mercy" speech.
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant
there."
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:31 pm
my current fav:
"'Tis times' plague when madmen lead the blind."
from King Lear.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:52 am
One of my OVERALL favorites EVER is the beginning of Richard III:
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sonne of York,"
I prefer the "sonne" spelling so that we can get the full effect of the pun. (You know..."sun" v. "son")
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:29 pm
natnotgnat Mine's: Marry sir, they have commited false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves!! Dogberry rocks! (from Much Ado)
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