What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

'Give every man thine ear
But few thy voice
Take each man's censure
But reserve thy judgement'

Which comes from the same speech as Hilda and Annie's.

Hard to live up to sometimes

Sorry it was greduster's quote.

annie touched on it first, I think.

Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble!

Also like "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to
deceive".

Oops, sorry, (not Shakespeare).

Goodnight sweet prince. And may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

So beautiful.

When we did Macbeth in the 4th form with the dreaded Miss Munro, for some reason Fleance's line
'O Mother he has killed me'
had us painfully clutching our sides in paroxysms of giggles, hoping to escape her terrifying glare and the inevitable caustic comment

And this, which I remember from school. Merchant of Venice. (bit long to be a quote)

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

Reminds me of a hot summer night when DD and I sat in the garden while un-sleeping grandson played quietly in his sandbox and the garden smelled so summery.

Studied King Lear for A Level and was struck by the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." (about Goneril and Regan.)
Cordelia was my favourite heroine.

This precious stone set in the silver sea
This blessed plot
This earth
This realm
This England

Richard 11

I think I've left some out that's all I can remember

There is a lot more Terribull but that is the nub of it, the quote.

A good one!

I was up at the cathedral today and the tea lights and candles were busy. One of the clergy said he couldn't understand why people wanted to light candles so much. I quoted one of my favourites "how far that little candle throws his beams Like a good deed in a naughty world"

So shines a good deed
And it is a naughty world .

There was a star danced and under it I was born

(Of an old woman): "rump-fed runnion".

"There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." Sounds like Hamlet but I'm not sure now!

"Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares/And take the winds of March with beauty"

If music be the food of love play on. Thinks its Twelfth Night.

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

My DM always added "and a lifetime of regret" which was always very sobering. I hasten to say that she was a fun person too.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts

I agree with Jalima

I used to like this when I was overweight (I'm not now):-

Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look
Give me men about me that are fat.

Julius Caesar

I've never understood a word of Shakespeare. It was knocked out of me having to learn it at school.

I like Jingle bells quotes. I know I will get yelled at and I know Shakespeare is wonderful and the language unsurpassed but I am TOTALLY ALLERGIC TO SHAKESPEARE!

I went to a one of the top academic schools in England and we had to do a Shakespeare a term for seven years, even if we didn't do A level Eng Lit. I have had it up to here and you would get me near the Globe. Rather stick pins in my eyes.

Although I have occasionally enjoyed a jazzed up version such as a Royal Court production of Twelfth Night, which was my Olevel text. Got on the wrong side of the English teacher when I said I though Olivia was a vapid creature, and of course she was Miss Ps heroine. Also she didn't like when I disagreed with her that it was a tragedy as well as comedy because of Malvolio - got what he deserved to my mind. A few years ago on Friends Reunited someone posted that what Miss P didn't know about courtly love wasn't worth knowing. So useful in the 60s.

Now all shout me down - or is there anyone else out there that feels the same?

(thou) 'cream faced loon'
(Macbeth). Not so much for the insult but because it brings back memories of childhood, and my brother teasing me with this and similar jibes. I didn't know it came from Shakespeare at the time - I was around 6 or 7 years old maybe, and he was 10 years older.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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 - and more or less sums up my philosophy of life