Favourite Shakespeare Quote ... ?
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| #1 Posted 4 months ago | Reply | I've always liked the classic ..."To Be Or Not To Be...."
D'you have a favourite?? |
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| #2 Posted 4 months ago | Reply | I've always loved Shylock's monologue from Act 3, scene 1 of "The Merchant of Venice".To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked 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 prick 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 we are like you in the rest, we shall resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. |
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| #3 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | I dunno about quote, but my favorite tragedy is macbeth and my favorite comedy is midnight summers dream
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| #4 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | I don't think I have a favorite quote. I should, but I don't.
My favorite play would probably be A Midsummer Night's Dream, though. |
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| #5 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #4 by Tatterdemalion | Reply | "Is this a dagger which I see before me?"
Used to love that. |
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| #6 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #2 by MutantLeprechaun | Reply | I love that monologue as well.
My favorite tragedy is Hamlet, but that's just as a whole. I really do love Macbeth's dagger monologue as well.
I also really like the monologue in Much Ado About Nothing when Benedick talks about how his friends couldn't possibly be deceiving him about Beatrice being in love with him (even though they are, lol) and he says at the end, "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." |
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| #7 Posted 2 months ago | Reply | | "out vile jelly!" lol |
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| #8 Posted 2 months ago | Reply | | "Out out, damn spotting" |
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| #9 Posted 3 weeks ago | Reply | "My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation."
- Julius Ceasar
"Cry HAVOC! And let slip the dogs of war."
- Julius Ceasar (again)
Also, Hamlet's monolouge about the greatness of man (how infinite in faculty, etc.), and subsequently his remark that man is nothing but dust in the end. Seriously though, from Hamlet I could pick from dozens of awesome quotations. |
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| #10 Posted 3 weeks ago | Reply | | Who watches the watchmen? |
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| #11 Posted 3 weeks ago | Reply | | I haven't really thought about it much, but I do like Hamlet's "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." And "Get thee to a nunnery!" is pretty awesome too because it rhymes. :D |
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| #12 Posted 2 weeks ago, in reply to post #10 by Acks | Reply | I thought that one was from some Roman satirist?
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
~ ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE - The Comedy of Errors
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| #13 Posted 2 weeks ago, in reply to post #12 by yamiangie | Reply | Saw that play in 6th grade, plus read a million versions before we saw it, but I don't remember a dang thing that happens. :P
Should probably read it again.
I just love at the end of Othello when Iago refuses to say another word.
"Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
From this time forth I never will speak word." |
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| #14 Posted 1 week ago | Reply | | I loved most of Beatrice's lines in 'Much Ado About Nothing' particularly her "O that I were a man!" speech. I'd post if but can't find it. I really enjoyed that play, it was so much better than A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hamlet and MacBeth are just so depressing. Same could be said for Romeo and Juliet though I suppose. Oh yes, Juliet's deathbed speech too. |
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