Hast thou a favourite quote by the bard Shakespeare?

'Come what, come may;
Time, and the hour, run through the roughest day...'

Macbeth - spoken by Lady Mac. My mother comforted me with those words each morning before I set off, anxiously, for school.

"To be or not to be, that is the question"

look at the tragic loading of this bed! the cunning Iago in Othello

The course of true love never did run smooth

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" - from a Midsummer Night's Dream

“What's done cannot be undone.”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I love this quote, it is what it is .

Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just. (King Lear)

A message for our times (or all times), methinks.

I like this one from Richard 111:

"Now is the winter of our discontent".

It was once paraphrased by a local camping store as:

"Now is the winter of our discount tents"

I loved it!!!

"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow." Reminds me of o'level English literature

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

To be or not to be

Shylock's speech from Merchant of Venice. "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 will 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". I really enjoyed the play but as a 15yr old with aspirations of being an actress i spent far more time studying Portia then Shylock. Then I was lucky enough to see Patrick Stewart in Shylock: Shakespeares Alien in Leeds about 10 years ago and the passion with which he discussed the character transferred to me and now i absolutely love the play and am fascinated with different interpretations of the character.

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" Act V, Scene 1. (The Scottish play)

I always wanted a dog called Spot so I could shout this at him. But in spite of having 4 dogs over the years, we never had one that could even remotely be called spotty

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

The Merchant of Venice.

"Shall I compare thee to a summers day?"

Sonnet 18

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

From Hamlet

Julius Caesar '' What's the weather like, Brutus''
Brutus: '' Hail Caesar''

When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

To sleep perchance to dream (Hamlet)

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

from King Lear when he has been deserted by his daughters - a very poignant speech

from Henry V

Once more unto the breach dear friends
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood

it's the third and fourth line which mean the most to me

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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.