what's your favourite shakespeare quote?

Question

just wondering

Answer 1

Hubble bubble toil and trouble..............

Answer 2

I like this passage from "Hamlet," which indicates that Shakespeare was the first literate Goth:
'Tis now the very witching time of night
When churchyards yawn and Hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.

Answer 3

Two pieces from the same scene in Hamlet. Good quotes!

Seems, madam, Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
'That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passeth show-
These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

And this one:

O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

Answer 4

There are so many. Here are just a few of my favourites:

Motto for life from Hamlet - "This above all, to thine own self be true"

One for all the teachers and parents out there from King Lear - "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child"

And one for every time George W Bush opens his mouth from Macbeth - "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Answer 5

"A dear happiness to women. They else would have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." (Much Ado About Nothing)

Actually, that whole scene between Beatrice & Benedick. And the one later on, "I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?" and Ben goading Bea to admit she feels the same. Magic!

Answer 6

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as i foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air; and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest)

Answer 7

I rather like "Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed." But that's just the first one I think of. There are so many which are so good. Anything Beatrice or Benedick say, for example. Honestly, those two.

Answer 8

Puck:

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered 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.
Else the Puck a liar call.
And so good night unto you all.
Give me your hands,
If we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

Answer 9

From Julius Caesar - "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" (At least I think that was Shakespeare).

Answer 10

We few, we happy few, he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks who fought with us on St. Crispin's day!

Henry V

Answer 11

All from Hamlet:

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks".

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Good-night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

So many great quotes, so little time <<