2007-07-01 01:49:54 · 11 answers · asked by Kelly 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
From the Twelfth Night (Act II, Scene V)
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
2007-07-01 02:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by _maldita_ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep and in his simple show he harbours treason."
Henry the 6th Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1, Line 53
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on"
The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
2007-07-01 09:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Et tu Brutus
2007-07-01 08:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by malroymck 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the beast with two backs. from Othello. quote that to someone and they'll laugh, then tell them it's Shakespeare and they go "really"?
2007-07-01 09:00:53 · answer #4 · answered by archie. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robin's last speech, which ends "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of my favourites:
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...
2007-07-01 11:20:43 · answer #5 · answered by Liath 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mine personally is this one,
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
2007-07-01 08:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by shadowhunter93 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War.
2007-07-01 12:13:00 · answer #7 · answered by perchorin 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
to me that is by far the best quote in the book(play)
2007-07-01 10:20:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"He hath but slenderly known himself" King Lear
2007-07-01 08:58:20 · answer #9 · answered by Jubilee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
Hamlet
and, um, this one's from a sonnet
"For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings."
2007-07-01 09:28:48 · answer #10 · answered by flipthecoin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋