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Hast thou a favourite quote by the bard Shakespeare?

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KatGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 05-Mar-14 12:59:10

In the lead up to Shakespeare Week (17th – 23rd March 2014), we want to know the whence and wherefores of your favourite Shakespeare quotes #lamesorry

Post your quote below to be entered into a prize draw to win one of three Usborne collections of six of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, beautifully presented in a clothbound gift edition. The collection includes Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest as well as a short biography of the bard himself, all beautifully retold and illustrated for children.

Hast thou or hast thou not a quote, that is the question. Prithee, tell us ere 12 March! #alsoabitlame

Nonu Thu 06-Mar-14 15:11:15

The latter , if you prick me do I not also bleed ?

nannyfran Thu 06-Mar-14 15:41:30

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it.
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

These all memories from o'level exams and Macbeth.
On a more cheerful note:
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Mynameiss Thu 06-Mar-14 15:56:11

'Out Damned Spot'

I love that quote from MacBeth

annemac101 Thu 06-Mar-14 17:29:41

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

oznan Thu 06-Mar-14 19:20:38

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love"

From Hamlet,I have always loved this quote.

grannyactivist Thu 06-Mar-14 20:07:49

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ( All's Well That Ends Well )

bamba Thu 06-Mar-14 20:17:12

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves,

Nonu Thu 06-Mar-14 20:17:18

That is our Mantra , when travelling abroad !
Very good one at that !
smile

Nonu Thu 06-Mar-14 20:18:02

To Granny by the by

SallySwann Thu 06-Mar-14 20:43:05

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" is my favourite said of course by Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Always think of it when trying to remove a stain!

hdh74 Thu 06-Mar-14 22:31:55

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! - the Bard could fire a well-aimed barb.

Ariadne Fri 07-Mar-14 06:16:54

hdh74 now, I like that!

One more:

"If every day were playing holiday,
To sport would be as tedious as to work."

Stansgran Fri 07-Mar-14 08:08:32

"Mine eyes smell onions. "Great for crying over a soppy film and pretending not to.
As a family we use "When shall we three meet again,"" stand not upon the order...".(we don't need to say any more) "sharper than a serpents tooth "when cross with daughters and another Lear when surrounded by cackling women," her voice was ever soft and low an excellent thing in a woman." Probably misquoted that last one about Cordelia.

GrannyGear Fri 07-Mar-14 10:22:18

From Twelfth Night:
"Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know."

Sung by Feste the clown. I just like the "pretty sweeting" as a term of address.
flowers

paperbackbutterfly Fri 07-Mar-14 11:57:01

'Mine eyes smell onions' from 'All's Well That Ends Well' is my favourite quote because it is so descriptively true and a phrase we use in the family whenever we are cutting up onions smile

telletubby Fri 07-Mar-14 11:58:29

Beatrice in Much Ado: I couldn't abide a man with a beard on his face - I'd rather lie in the woollen.

NickKokolski Fri 07-Mar-14 12:03:59

Puck delivers this piece at the end of the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream and has been a favourite of mine for many years.

“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:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends."

Valbeasixties Fri 07-Mar-14 12:18:51

'To me, fair friend, you can never be old;
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.'

Sonnet 104

Scsuzie963 Fri 07-Mar-14 12:22:05

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III scene 2

or

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act I scene 2

Sararose Fri 07-Mar-14 12:28:44

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and siver becks me to come on.

King John - Act three- scene two

Greed or loyalty?

Icholash Fri 07-Mar-14 13:08:14

'Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Smarting in lingering pickle' - Cleopatra's threat.(Act ll, Sc.v)
My children never took this threat seriously !

annodomini Fri 07-Mar-14 13:13:27

We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Prospero has the last word in the Tempest.

mrsmopp Fri 07-Mar-14 14:15:07

I bequeath to my wife, my second best bed?
Taken from his last 'will' and testament.

libra10 Fri 07-Mar-14 14:29:03

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Very true!

Fid Fri 07-Mar-14 14:37:58

I think of this every morning when I plaster my make-up on -
"God has given you one face and you make yourself another".